flâneur

Abstract Warfare: How TSMC Made Its Own Market

kwokchain.com · 2,654 words · saved by 1 readers

The most important tech companies are much larger than their original markets or what anyone imagined. There is something about them that defies anyone’s ability to estimate their market size. These companies not only expand their market, they seem to make their markets. They do it by attacking the abstractions their industry is built on, not their competitors’ products. They change what it take

The most important tech companies are much larger than their original markets or what anyone imagined. There is something about them that defies anyone’s ability to estimate their market size. These companies not only expand their market, they seem to make their markets. They do it by attacking the abstractions their industry is built on, not their competitors’ products. They change what it takes to participate in the industry, creating shared infrastructure out of the core of their competitors’ businesses, and allowing an ecosystem of new companies to form that both win in the market and…

related reading