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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…