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THE BROKEN ECONOMICS OF DATABASES (or, why all databases are doomed to suck) I cover a very good article by Almog Gavra where he explains: • why infra companies can have absurdly-high gross margins yet still risk bankruptcy • why moats & unfair advantages (distribution, production) matter • why... show more

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Stanislav Kozlovski5 months ago

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Almog Gavra5 months ago

Thanks for the s/o Stan! We had some really good conversations about this offline too :) I'll need at some point to follow this up with the results of that.

Ifeora Okechukwu Patrick5 months ago

@almoggavra cc: @Dominus_Kelvin I always knew you were right but you no wan collect my support 😁

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