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Tech industry & business models Videos Recommended on Hacker News (114)
Tech industry & business models is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 114 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2008 and 2026 — 236 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Tech business: platform economics, big tech antitrust, monopolies, business model analysis, tech layoffs, app stores, subscriptions, airline loyalty and fintech models, Silicon Valley economics.
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10 mo on HNYouTube's copyright system isn't broken. The world's is.
Tom Scott
13 HN recommender · 2020–2024
10 mo on HNWinners Take All | Anand Giridharadas | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
9 HN recommender · 2018–2026
9 mo on HNThe Problem With Facebook
2veritasium
3 HN recommender · 2014–2018
8 mo on HNVidMe or Why Platforms Aren't Your Friends
Folding Ideas
8 HN recommender · 2017–2023
8 mo on HNSinclair Broadcast Group: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
LastWeekTonight
10 HN recommender · 2017–2026
6 mo on HNLine Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs
Folding Ideas
12 HN recommender · 2022–2026
6 mo on HNNet Neutrality: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
LastWeekTonight
7 HN recommender · 2014–2017
6 mo on HNAll-In Summit: Bill Gurley presents 2,851 Miles
All-In Podcast
5 HN recommender · 2023–2026
5 mo on HNCompetition is for Losers with Peter Thiel (How to Start a Startup 2014: 5)
Y Combinator
5 HN recommender · 2017–2025
6 mo on HNJoe Rogan Experience #1258 - Jack Dorsey, Vijaya Gadde & Tim Pool
PowerfulJRE
6 HN recommender · 2019–2023
5 mo on HNHow Facebook is Stealing Billions of Views
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
3 HN recommender · 2015–2019
5 mo on HNInvestigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers
People Make Games
5 HN recommender · 2021–2026
4 mo on HNre:publica 2015 - Aral Balkan: Beyond The Camera Panopticon
re:publica
5 HN recommender · 2015–2020
4 mo on HNThis is why we can't have nice things
Veritasium
4 HN recommender · 2021–2024
3 mo on HNHow technology loses out in companies, countries & continents and what to do about it
bert hubert
2 HN recommender · 2022–2024
4 mo on HNWhy SpaceX is Making Starlink
Real Engineering
4 HN recommender · 2019–2020
3 mo on HNThe Death of Affordable Computing | Tariffs Impact & Investigation
Gamers Nexus
3 HN recommender · 2025–2025
3 mo on HNEpic v Apple: Judgment Day - Who Won? Who Lost? ...and Why? (VL538)
Hoeg Law
3 HN recommender · 2021–2022
3 mo on HNMaciej Ceglowski - Barely succeed! It's easier!
webdirections
3 HN recommender · 2015–2020
3 mo on HN1,500 Slot Machines Walk into a Bar: Adventures in Quantity Over Quality
GDC Festival of Gaming
3 HN recommender · 2020–2026
3 mo on HNHow Airlines Quietly Became Banks
Wendover Productions
5 HN recommender · 2021–2026
3 mo on HNWhy The World Relies On ASML For Machines That Print Chips
CNBC
4 HN recommender · 2022–2024
3 mo on HNLina Khan – FTC Chair on Amazon Antitrust Lawsuit & AI Oversight | The Daily Show
The Daily Show
4 HN recommender · 2024–2024
3 mo on HNDEF CON 31 - An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Ensh*ttification - Cory Doctorow
DEFCONConference
4 HN recommender · 2023–2024
3 mo on HNSusan Crawford on Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry & Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age
Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
3 HN recommender · 2013–2014
3 mo on HNThe Boring Company Information Session
The Boring Company
3 HN recommender · 2018–2019
3 mo on HNThe UK's Failed Experiment in Rail Privatization
Wendover Productions
4 HN recommender · 2021–2024
3 mo on HNWhy Spotify Will Ultimately Fail
Benn Jordan
3 HN recommender · 2023–2024
3 mo on HNIntel - Anti-Competitive, Anti-Consumer, Anti-Technology.
AdoredTV
3 HN recommender · 2017–2023
2 mo on HNDARK GOTHIC MAGA: How Tech Billionaires Plan to Destroy America
Blonde Politics | The Silly Serious
9 HN recommender · 2025–2026
2 mo on HNWhy Doing Taxes Is So Hard | Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj | Netflix
Netflix Is A Joke
2 HN recommender · 2021–2024
2 mo on HNDisruptive Innovation - Clayton Christensen (Part 2)
modplanman
2 HN recommender · 2014–2017
2 mo on HNSpaceX: The Biggest Money Loser in IPO History
Patrick Boyle
3 HN recommender · 2026–2026
2 mo on HNEric Schmidt and Peter Thiel - Fortune Debate, 2012
kykeon
2 HN recommender · 2016–2020
2 mo on HNThe Great Stranding: How Inaccurate Mainstream LCOE Estimates are Creating a Trillion-Dollar Bubble
RethinkX
2 HN recommender · 2022–2025
2 mo on HNCOLLAPSE of Personal Computing | Investigation Into the Destruction of Ownership
Gamers Nexus
2 HN recommender · 2026–2026