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▶ 3:12:04 Ben Gilbert So, the first part of analysis is a section called power, which we have shamelessly ripped from Hamilton Helmer's book, Seven Powers.

▶ 1:53:05 David Rosenthal So for folks new to the show, this is one of the discussion topics we do for every episode as we go through Hamilton Helmer's excellent Seven Powers.
▶ 1:56:27 David Rosenthal No, I do think there actually is, I don't think Hamilton captures this in his seven powers, and I don't know if he would consider this one, but there is like an ecosystem aspect here because the EDM companies and the IP companies are so…

▶ 3:17:18 David Rosenthal So this is a segment we do in analysis in every episode based on Hamilton Helmer's excellent Seven Powers book and framework, and the idea is that there are seven ways that a business can sustainably generate significantly more profit than…
▶ 3:18:50 Ben Gilbert So the classic definition of branding, and I need to reread Seven Powers to refresh myself on this, but the idea is, if I show you two products side by side that are identical, but one is branded, will you pay me more money for the one…

▶ 3:14:27 Ben Gilbert And this is adapted from a framework that Hamilton Helmer created in his book Seven Powers.

▶ 2:10:29 David Rosenthal Oh, I think, yeah, Hamilton in Seven Powers, I think he does say patents are cornered.

▶ 8:42 Hamilton Helmer Seven powers was an attempt to take an understanding of strategy and make it generally available as sort of pattern recognition.
▶ 9:51 Hamilton Helmer And so the idea behind seven powers and strategy three point O is to put into the hands of those who are capable of inventing that a way of looking at the world that gives them a little bit more acuity about what will work and what won't.
▶ 14:11 Ben Gilbert And I think what you're saying is there's a whole lot of work that you've done and there is to do out in the world of applying the seven powers framework specifically to platform businesses because they're different than businesses that…
▶ 45:58 Chenyi Shi So number one is if they're readers of Seven Powers and you're patient enough to flip to the appendix after each chapter, there is this concept that we call surplus leader margin, which is the maximum price you can charge more than a…

▶ 1:18:40 Ben Gilbert There's a section that we always do, Sam, called Power, which is based on a book by Hamilton Helmer called Seven Powers, which is an analysis of why a business, what is it about a particular business that enables them to achieve persistent…

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