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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
8 mo on HNVidMe or Why Platforms Aren't Your Friends
Folding Ideas
8 HN recommender · 2017–2023
6 mo on HNLine Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs
Folding Ideas
12 HN recommender · 2022–2026
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
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
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 HNDEF CON 31 - An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Ensh*ttification - Cory Doctorow
DEFCONConference
4 HN recommender · 2023–2024
2 mo on HNDisruptive Innovation - Clayton Christensen (Part 2)
modplanman
2 HN recommender · 2014–2017
2 mo on HNThiel: Google has $50B, doesn't innovate
CNN
2 HN recommender · 2017–2023
2 mo on HNWhy Sony's Beta Videotape System Failed--and failed hard (Part 1)
Technology Connections
2 HN recommender · 2022–2026
2 mo on HNThe $8 billion iPod | Rob Reid
TED
2 HN recommender · 2012–2026
2 mo on HNHere Comes Another Bubble v1.1 - The Richter Scales
TheRichterScales
3 HN recommender · 2009–2026
2 mo on HNCorporate Open Source Anti-patterns
Bryan Cantrill
2 HN recommender · 2014–2023
2 mo on HNIndia's Semiconductor Failure
Asianometry
2 HN recommender · 2021–2025
2 mo on HNWhy is Japan So Weak in Software?
Asianometry
2 HN recommender · 2024–2026
2 mo on HNJaron Lanier – Who is Civilization for? (+ Q&A with Ulrich Kelber) Willy Brandt Lecture 2018
Bundeskanzler-Willy-Brandt-Stiftung
2 HN recommender · 2021–2024
1 mo on HNFrank Zappa explains the decline of the music business
budagum
1 HN recommend · 2011–2026
1 mo on HNThis Video Has 77,321,815 Views
Tom Scott
2 HN recommender · 2020–2026
1 mo on HNHow Japan Learned Semiconductors
Asianometry
1 HN recommend · 2022–2023
1 mo on HNHow to slow down a stock exchange
Tom Scott
1 HN recommend · 2019–2023
1 mo on HNBill Gates - Microsoft Antitrust Deposition - Highlights
Joe John
1 HN recommend · 2020–2022
1 mo on HNCaml Trading
Yaron Minsky
1 HN recommend · 2013–2018
1 mo on HNThis clock was famous, but the internet ruined it.
Tom Scott
1 HN recommend · 2022–2023
0 mo on HN"The World is a Corporation" (Network, 1976)
Pedro Palatnik
0 HN recommender · 2021–2024
0 mo on HNChina's Bonkers Bike-share Bubble
Asianometry
0 HN recommender · 2026–2026
0 mo on HNShoshana Zuboff on surveillance capitalism | VPRO Documentary
vpro documentary
0 HN recommender · 2020–2022
0 mo on HNClayton Christensen: Disruptive innovation
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
0 HN recommender · 2019–2023
0 mo on HNMilton Friedman - Monopoly
LibertyPen
0 HN recommender · 2012–2025
0 mo on HNMatt Damon Sweats From His Scalp While Eating Spicy Wings | Hot Ones
First We Feast
0 HN recommender · 2022–2026