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Re:Ask HN: Why doesn't YouTube have a competitor? by clairity on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @12:50AM (#29481653)
let me be blunt: you don't understand what (business) strategy is, nor any of the dimensions of analyzing it. there's no such thing as 'product strategy'; product executes on the business strategy using marketing tactics like building features the target market wants. product features are not a strategy.

in a competitive market, there are two broad strategies available: cost (walmart) and differentiation (apple). youtube coerced its market into being favorable to itself by leveraging the anti-competitive aspects i mentioned earlier. that simply trumps product tactics, and even these two competitive market strategies; it subverts entire markets unfairly and uneconomically. i really can't teach you strategy or market economics in an hn comment; you need to go study that yourself. also, arguing from emotion is a sure-fire way to lead yourself astray.

Re:Ask HN: Why doesn't YouTube have a competitor? by sizzle on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @04:07AM (#29482585)
Can you point to some solid resources so I can get on your level? You sound like you know what goes on behind closed doors in the business world. Do you blog about these topics anywhere? Thanks.
Re:Ask HN: Why doesn't YouTube have a competitor? by clairity on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @01:48PM (#29488709)
get an mba? that’s how i gained much of my knowledge, along with general business experience (product management and founding startups).

less flippantly, you can actually find a lot of free mba courses online now. here’s one page listing some resources (halfway down): https://www.uopeople.edu/blog/the-best-free-online-mba-cours...

uopeople offers a cheap online mba, apparently accredited even (i personally can’t vouch for it’s quality though). investopedia is also a good reference resource for looking up random business concepts.

Re:Ask HN: Why doesn't YouTube have a competitor? by sizzle on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @03:34PM (#29490129)
I wonder how much of your knowledge is from the MBA vs experience grinding in real business world experience. I know a handful of people who said MBA was worthless, only did it for connections and pay bump in their product orgs at F500 tech companies. Anyway, thanks for sharing a data point towards MBA, I'll look into it.

Have you read anything by Karl Marx regarding captialism? You seem to know a ton about capital and how it pervades society and social stratification of the workforce and labor.

Re:Ask HN: Why doesn't YouTube have a competitor? by clairity on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @04:43PM (#29490921)
plenty of folks coast through mba programs learning only superficially, but that shouldn't taint the value of the information itself. i gained plenty of confidence in the areas of finance, marketing, accounting, operations, etc. that i didn't have before and which was directly applicable to being a product manager and startup founder.

i've read a bit of marx but mostly in digest form. das kapital and adam smith's wealth of nations are on my list of older, original works that i want to read in full. i'm sympathetic to the labor theory of value, which both explored in their works, but most modern economists seem to eschew and even fear.

Re:Ask HN: Why doesn't YouTube have a competitor? by lurker616 on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @02:27AM (#29482099)
It's ironic that you are the one who is getting more heated and aggressive in their replies.