Business Breakdowns
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Business Breakdowns is a podcast that unpacks how notable companies work, make money, and build durable advantages.
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Costco: how relentless cost discipline built an unbeatable retail model
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April 14, 2021
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Unit economics
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- Membership fees, not product sales, generate 75% of Costco's profit
- Capping markup at 12% makes it structurally impossible for rivals to match prices
- Sinegal ran Costco for decades prioritising long-term culture over quarterly earnings
Alibaba: how a Chinese copycat became a country-scale business
Business Breakdowns
April 9, 2021
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9
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8
Competitive analysis
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- Alibaba monetises like Google, not Amazon — advertising, not sales
- Asset-light platform model scaled to $1.2T GMV without owning logistics
- Pinduoduo proved Alibaba's dominance is beatable by reducing friction further
How Chipotle built best-in-class unit economics through radical simplicity
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April 7, 2021
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9
Unit economics
8
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- Owning every restaurant—not franchising—is Chipotle's compounding advantage.
- Food safety crisis wiped 70% of market cap, triggering a full reset.
- Digital ordering and dark kitchens could double addressable store count.
Shopify's business model: infrastructure, trust, and compounding commerce
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April 5, 2021
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Business models
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- Shopify earns on merchants' success, not just their subscription fee
- High-trust commerce builds loyalty; low-trust commerce optimises convenience
- The Zerg creep strategy: spread high-trust commerce everywhere until unbeatable