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on… When Andreessen Horowitz Has a Sticky Situation to Solve, It Calls ‘The Wolf’
Fascinating. More like this please.
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The key question is weather profit concentration follows the same pattern as this revenue concentration. Apple, Microsoft and Google all has declining margin cost, so scale drove profit concentration. I assume this will occur in these market, but this hasn't yet been the case (likely token price increases by OpenAI and Anthropic next year post IPO will help).
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