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Eagerness to Expand Often Signals Founders Dislike Their Core Business
“The sort of desire to expand into other categories is sometimes a sign that you don't love your core business. I mean, if you think about great companies, they've scaled with their core business for a long, long period of time. And it's always much better that…”
Platforms With the Largest Selection Always Win at Population Scale
“The paradox of choice is an individual issue, not a population issue. And on the population level, you and I Both love sushi, but our favorite sushi restaurants could be very different, and that's multiplied across all of your customers. So some people fail to…”
Operational Efficiency Allows Market Leaders to Sustainably Outspend Competitors
“The other thing that is quite interesting to me is that the best companies also know that if they run the business more efficiently, they can actually outspend their competitors. I mean, so if you are more efficient, then I can outspend my competitors because …”
Market Expansion Must Come From Customer Pull, Not Empire Building
“If you're being pulled by the customer or pulled by the market, that is a great sign. If you're pushing because you have aspirations of building an empire, that is less good of a sign.”
Excess Kitchen Capacity Makes Restaurant Delivery Highly Leverageable
“The unit economics, not of his business, but also of a restaurant, and the issues at a restaurant where they have more capacity in the kitchen than they have capacity in the front of the house to seat people. You can only turn a restaurant maybe two times for …”