The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER USA TODAY BESTSELLER Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are the four most influential companies on the planet. Just about everyone thinks they know how they got there. Just about everyone is wrong. For all that’s been written about the Four over the last two decades, no one has captured their power and staggering success as insightfully as Scott Galloway. Instead of buying the myths these companies broadcast, Galloway asks fundamental questions. How did the Four infiltrate our lives so completely that they’re almost impossible to avoid (or boycott)? Why does the stock market forgive them for sins that would destroy other firms? And as they race to become the world’s first trillion-dollar company, can anyone challenge them? In the same irreverent style that has made him one of the world’s most celebrated business professors, Galloway deconstructs the strategies of the Four that lurk beneath their shiny veneers. He shows how they manipulate the fundamental emotional needs that have driven us since our ancestors lived in caves, at a speed and scope others can’t match. And he reveals how you can apply the lessons of their ascent to your own business or career. Whether you want to compete with them, do business with them, or simply live in the world they dominate, you need to understand the Four.
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Couldn't do it. Too many books I'd rather read. Not terrible, but not my cup of tea. Would love a TLDR!
The author provides some OK narratives on the big four (Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple) but all through some anecdotes or overstretched, often remotely relevant facts. For example he stipulates that homo-sapiens were hunter gatherers (a fact) hence they like shopping and physical stores (gathering in this age), and builds a chapter on this.
Learned a lot from it. About marketing and the internet, and the 4 companies the book focused upon.
It's a bit over-dramatic, but I guess that was also entertaining.
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