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The Structure of Competition between Cryptocurrency Exchanges

Not Investing Advice • 137 implied HN points • 07 Jun 23
🔮 Crypto Competition Exchanges Market Dynamics Regulation
  1. Crypto exchange ecosystem is competitive with over 100 active exchanges in the US trading similar assets.
  2. Binance and Coinbase listing new tokens increases trade volume on other exchanges, making them complements not substitutes.
  3. Small exchanges rely on market maker arbitrage with Binance/Coinbase for liquidity, showcasing the 'leader' role of large exchanges in crypto markets.

Airbnb’s Algorithmic Odyssey: Balancing Automation, Pricing, and User Trust

Gad’s Newsletter • 35 implied HN points • 23 Oct 23
💼 Business Technology Processes Market Dynamics Customer Service
  1. Airbnb's core pillars for a great service include affordable prices, reliability, and customer support during issues.
  2. Airbnb faces challenges with customer support, especially with cancellations and non-existent listings, impacting trustworthiness.
  3. Achieving 'product and process market fit' is crucial for companies like Airbnb to align product value with operational processes to meet market demands.
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Tidal Waves in Venture Capital

East Wind • 17 implied HN points • 11 Dec 23
💼 Business Venture Capital Data science Investment Trends Market Dynamics Future Predictions
  1. Venture capital is facing challenges like the curse of scale and lower returns, making the industry more competitive.
  2. Data science and AI are reshaping VC investment processes, improving deal sourcing and evaluation.
  3. VC is becoming higher frequency, with firms leveraging AI to move faster and secure deals in a more competitive landscape.

Subsidies, External Costs, and Deadweight Loss

Knowledge Problem • 39 implied HN points • 27 Jul 23
💼 Business Energy Tax policy Market Dynamics Subsidies Political Economy
  1. Understanding economic analyses of power markets is crucial for applied economics.
  2. Federal subsidies for wind and solar impact wholesale power markets by creating inefficiencies and distorting outcomes.
  3. Tax credits like the PTC/ITC are costly ways to encourage renewable energy generation, and a carbon tax might be more efficient.

Where Has All The Money Gone?

Superfluid • 39 implied HN points • 28 Jun 23
💼 Business Venture Capital Startup Ecosystem Market Dynamics
  1. In the past, startups received large amounts of capital at early stages like Pre-Seed, which led to a funding freeze at Series B stage.
  2. Decrease in later-stage technology funding and changing market dynamics have implications for the entire startup ecosystem.
  3. Founders are facing pressure to survive with short runways, need to focus on revenue generation, cost control, and strategic decision making.

Wendy’s Flips on Dynamic Pricing

Gad’s Newsletter • 2 HN points • 04 Mar 24
💼 Business Pricing Consumer behavior Economics Market Dynamics
  1. Wendy's plans to implement digital menu boards with dynamic pricing by 2025 to enhance customer experience and boost sales.
  2. Different forms of pricing like static pricing, time-varying static pricing, and dynamic pricing are used in various industries to maximize revenue and cater to customer needs.
  3. Consumers often prefer fixed pricing over dynamic pricing due to aversion to risk and preference for consistency, but strategies like cost insurance can encourage adoption of more flexible pricing models.

Fair Price Theory

Tom Thought • 39 implied HN points • 26 May 23
💼 Business Economics Pricing Market Dynamics Value Creation Labor Market
  1. Every good or service has a fair price, whether it's labor dependent on skill or a product based on cost of parts and labor.
  2. There is no definitive 'fair' price, only the market price determined by what people are willing to pay.
  3. Value of a product depends on consumer demand, not just on the labor or materials that went into it. Pay isn't determined solely by skill, but by usefulness and rarity of the skill in demand.

The Risks Still Lurking in the Banking System

Apricitas Economics • 42 implied HN points • 08 May 23
💰 Finance Banking Interest Rates Deposits Market Dynamics
  1. The American banking system is facing increased risks with several banks failing and many regional banks under pressure
  2. Market movements for surviving banks show negative excess returns, with declining valuations particularly for mid-sized regional banks
  3. Understanding rates risk in the banking system requires looking at exposure to long-term assets, especially in real estate lending, and the impact on uninsured deposits

The Basic Economics of AGI, and Why Open Source will Lose

e/alpha • 2 HN points • 13 Feb 24
🕹 Technology AI Open Source Market Dynamics AGI Tech Companies
  1. Task-engaged AIs will dominate value creation as they are directly connected to tasks and results, leading to transformative impacts.
  2. The AI value chain will be driven by proprietary data in the long term, with winners initially based on access to compute and R&D talent.
  3. AGI is expected to be monopolistic, commercial, open-access, and affordable, leveling differences and nullifying capital inequality.

Quant Letter: July 2023, Week 2

The Parlour • 17 implied HN points • 12 Jul 23
💰 Finance Quantitative Financial Market Dynamics
  1. Weekly quantitative finance newsletter discussing 'Informed Trading Intensity' using ML indicators in asset management.
  2. Machine learning techniques in finance include diversifying portfolios, tabular learning, and predicting fund performance.
  3. Research in financial markets covers topics like bond fund performance, equity premia, thematic investing, and corporate bond returns prediction.

Economic Activity in Context

In My Tribe • 1 HN point • 05 Mar 24
💼 Business Economic Theory Human behavior Market Dynamics Economic History
  1. Human interdependence is a key aspect of economic activity, involving psychology, sociology, and anthropology in addition to traditional economic theory.
  2. Specialization and trade, unique to humans, play a vital role in economic activity evolution, with increasing complexity observed over time.
  3. In human interactions, balancing individual, group, and societal level incentives presents challenges, with markets often being efficient at the societal level.

Investing for Alpha or Beta?

Equal Ventures • 19 implied HN points • 01 Jun 23
💰 Finance Investing Venture Capital Market Dynamics Risk management
  1. Venture capital industry can exhibit herd behavior and be consensus-driven, deviating from contrarian thinking.
  2. Investors chasing beta during market peaks can lead to significant losses when the market corrects, highlighting the importance of sound investment strategies.
  3. Sticking to core investment sectors, avoiding chasing trends, and focusing on long-term conviction can lead to sustainable returns independent of market cycles.

Clouded Judgement: IPO Process Overview - Are IPO Markets Opening Soon?

Clouded Judgement • 12 implied HN points • 02 Aug 23
💼 Business Market Analysis Investor Relations Market Dynamics
  1. The IPO process involves selecting investment banks known as the "Bakeoff" where the company chooses banks to help with the offering.
  2. Before going public, a company prepares the S-1 document, audited financials, and a presentation for potential investors.
  3. After the IPO pricing, the company completes the Roadshow to meet with investors and determine allocations, leading to the first day of trading.

Is the next crunch in the AI race the lack of data center space?

danvdb • 1 HN point • 26 Feb 24
🕹 Technology AI Data Centers Energy consumption Infrastructure Market Dynamics
  1. The AI industry might face a shortage of data center space with the increase in NVIDIA H100 GPUs.
  2. The energy consumption from the forecasted 4.5 million H100 GPUs in 2023/24 could exceed the data center capacity, posing a challenge.
  3. Existing data centers may struggle to retrofit the necessary equipment and manage the power demands of the upcoming surge in GPU servers.

Supply and demand can explain anything. That's not great.

Economic Forces • 4 implied HN points • 14 Sep 23
💰 Finance Economics Inflation Theories Market Dynamics
  1. Using supply and demand to explain observations can be overly flexible and lead to pure sophistry in economics.
  2. Models based on implicit agreements, folk theorems, and coordination failures can be unfalsifiable and offer no predictive power.
  3. When evaluating economic theories, it's important to consider if they can provide meaningful predictions and not just overlapping explanations.

The Journey with General Catalyst

The Healthtech Initiative • 3 implied HN points • 31 Aug 23
💼 Business Investment Startups Technology Market Dynamics Ecosystems
  1. Stanford University's connection to Silicon Valley provides unique opportunities for students to engage with industry giants like Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg.
  2. Nico Bonatsos' investment philosophy evolved from focusing on consumer-centric mobile products to backing technical founders creating products for themselves.
  3. Healthcare startups require deep industry knowledge and partnerships for success, as seen in the case of Livongo's approach to tackling chronic diseases.

You'll have to pry supply and demand from my cold, dead hands (from the archives)

Economic Forces • 3 implied HN points • 17 Aug 23
💼 Business Economics Education Supply and Demand Market Dynamics
  1. Supply and demand can explain a lot about labor markets, even for introductory economics students.
  2. Workers respond to higher wages predictably, wages reflect productivity, and technology affects worker productivity.
  3. Understanding supply and demand in labor markets can help explain trends like growing returns to education and the increasing cost of education.

Market Dynamics and Risks of Liquid Staking Derivatives

Coin Metrics' State of the Network • 0 implied HN points • 12 Mar 24
💰 Finance Cryptocurrency Market Dynamics Liquidity Risks
  1. Staking on the Ethereum network has seen significant growth, with 31M ETH staked on the Beacon chain, representing 26% of the supply.
  2. Liquid Staking Tokens (LST's) like Lido's stETH & wstETH have become a dominant form of collateral, with $9.5B in collateral across DeFi lending markets.
  3. Market risks associated with Liquid Staking Tokens include de-pegging, liquidity risk, and potential market instability during significant events like the Terra Luna collapse.

Is Uber really in a fight to the death?

Joshua Gans' Newsletter • 0 implied HN points • 25 Nov 14
💼 Business Technology Competition Innovation Market Dynamics
  1. Uber's aggressive approach may not be solely due to a 'winner take all' nature of the market, but also influenced by various other factors like pricing, available drivers, and customer loyalty.
  2. The competition between Uber and Lyft is more about attracting customers rather than fighting for drivers unless there are moves towards exclusivity or incentives that make drivers prefer one platform over the other.
  3. In the long run, customer decisions in the ridesharing market may come down to price, as ease of transitioning between platforms can keep availability similar, leading the edge in service quality to be essential for capturing value.

Jump-Starting Network Effects

Platform Papers • 0 implied HN points • 15 Aug 23
💼 Business Competition Market Dynamics
  1. Superstars, like top artists or developers, have a significant impact on attracting consumers to platforms like music streaming services or app stores.
  2. Offering exclusivity to superstars can give platforms a competitive edge by attracting more consumers and complementors, enhancing the network effect.
  3. When platforms acquire superstars, the decision to withhold or license content to rivals affects market competitiveness and may impact exclusivity strategies.