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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where 7 Powers comes up on Acquired, 20VC, TBPN, Lenny's Podcast, the a16z Podcast
The State of AI: Models, Moats, and the Consumer Renaissance
- ▶ 5:34 Anish Acharya And it's very funny because if you actually study moats, which I think are most famously codified in the book Seven Powers, that's one of my favorites.
“Dumbest idea I’ve heard” to $100M ARR: Inside the rise of Gamma | Grant Lee (co-founder)
Acquired Podcast Hosts Break Down Google’s $1 Trillion Mistake
- ▶ 25:17 John Coogan How are you thinking about the seven powers these days? 5 times in the scene
Groq Founder, Jonathan Ross: OpenAI & Anthropic Will Build Their Own Chips & Will NVIDIA Hit $10TRN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:25:40 Jonathan Ross You know, um, Hamilton Helmer, Seven Powers, right?
How Scale AI is Pioneering the Future of Work
- ▶ 12:28 Ben Scharfstein I think the, like, seven powers from Hamilton Helmer are like a, you know, classic business framework way of thinking about moats, and they haven't changed. 2 times in the scene
🕰️ The Oral History of Windsurf (ft. Varun Mohan, Scott Wu, Jeff Wang, Kevin Hou, Anshul R)
- ▶ 2:06:14 Varun Mohan I constantly say this, like there's a book in business called like seven powers.
Spotify’s Journey To Profitability · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 12:53 Gustav Söderström Um, and over the years I've introduced some strategic frameworks to the company, some of which I know you're passionate about, like seven powers from Hampton helmet, um, bundling framework that she has wrote.
Epic Systems (MyChart) · Acquired
- ▶ 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.
Peter Singlehurst: Lessons from Turning Down Stripe, Coinbase and Losing Money on Northvalt · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:40 Harry Stebbings Can I ask you, when you think about, like, defensibility, when you think about trying to understand revenue quality, I looked at Seven Powers by Hamilton Helmer. 4 times in the scene
Jonathan Ross, Founder & CEO @ Groq: NVIDIA vs Groq - The Future of Training vs Inference | E1260 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:52 Jonathan Ross The, the biggest issue, so Seven Powers, we love Seven Powers, right? 2 times in the scene
TSMC · Acquired
- ▶ 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…
Mars Inc. - The Chocolate Story (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 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…
Pattern Breakers: How to find a breakthrough startup idea | Mike Maples, Jr. (Partner at Floodgate)
- ▶ 1:12:11 Lenny Rachitsky That reminds me of counter positioning from Hamilton, Hamilton Helmer's seven powers book.
The secret lever Replit pulled to scale ahead of its competition | Amjad Masad (Co-founder and CEO)
- ▶ 52:11 Amjad Masad I talked about Clay Christensen's Innovator's Dilemma, which I think is still a required reading, but you have more recent things like the Seven Powers by Hamilton Hambler. 2 times in the scene
Lockheed Martin (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:14:27 Ben Gilbert And this is adapted from a framework that Hamilton Helmer created in his book Seven Powers.
Qualcomm · Acquired
- ▶ 2:10:29 David Rosenthal Oh, I think, yeah, Hamilton in Seven Powers, I think he does say patents are cornered.
Platforms and Power (with Hamilton Helmer and Chenyi Shi) · Acquired
- ▶ 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…
Great Startup Ideas, Bad Businesses
- ▶ 12:17 Alex Lieberman Hamilton Helmer, who talks about this at length in his book, Seven Powers, basically just defines network effects in a very simple way.
FTX with Sam Bankman-Fried & Mario Gabriele (Extended Cut) · Acquired
- ▶ 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…
Not Boring (with Packy McCormick) - Extended Cut · Acquired
- ▶ 1:21:46 Packy McCormick I mean, we're both huge seven powers fans.
Unstack CMS All In One Hits $10k MRR, Adding $2500/mo, 16k Uniques from ProductHunt Launch
- ▶ 16:52 Grant Deken Um, Seven Powers by Hamilton Weber is probably one of the top.