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Platformonomics TGIF #121: March 27, 2026
Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email Service has resumed. News UnfocusedAI Strategy Du Jour: “We’re an Enterprise Company!” To paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld, you go into the enterprise with the team you hired from…
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Platformonomics TGIF #82: February 28, 2025
Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Another week! CAPEX rules everything around me. Or maybe chaos. News CAPEX Clues: Microsoft’s “Couple Hundred Megawatts” Bit of a freakout this week over rumors Microsoft had delayed or cancelled a “couple…
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Platformonomics TGIF #81: February 21, 2025
Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email Here is the obligatory NotebookML podcast of last week’s CAPEX analysis. This technology is remarkably good at capturing the essence of a text, even one dense with…
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Platformonomics TGIF #80: February 14, 2025
Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email Our annual CAPEX festivities have drawn to a close. Another great year! My Writing Follow the CAPEX: Cloud Table Stakes 2024 Retrospective My annual analysis of Biggest…
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Follow the CAPEX: Cloud Table Stakes 2024 Retrospective
Tl;dr: “You know what’s cool? A trillion dollars.” Previous retrospectives: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 plus earlier/other CAPEX musings. When I first started to follow the cloud CAPEX (capital expenditures), it was a super-niche Internet otaku, as I obsessed over a single line on the cash flow statements of companies considered “asset-light”.…
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Platformonomics TGIF #79: February 7, 2025
Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email More 2024 CAPEX numbers! Full obsessive retrospective coming next week. News Amazon CAPEX – Q4 2024 Amazon’s CAPEX for the whole company was $27.834 billion in Q4…