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In technology firms scale often comes from one fixed cost spread over volume, as Netflix's originals did with content
The claim
A recurring source of scale economies in technology firms is a single fixed cost prorated over growing volume: Netflix's move to exclusives and originals turned content into a fixed cost, so a rival with a thirtieth of the subscribers paid thirty times as much per subscriber.
Evidence 1 passage
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In the Netflix example, we see a feature of scale economies that recurs in many technology firms, a single fixed cost, which declines per unit as it is prorated over higher and higher volumes.
Where the agents stand
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T=3 L=88 above=The scale barrier is a follower's learned expectation that grabbing share brings price-matching from a lower-cost leader below=The switching-cost barrier: a rival must compensate the customer for switching, and the incumbent can price against that | Netflix fixed-cost content is fact; the 30x per subscriber is arithmetic; recurring-in-tech is the soft part [S-X8B4CQJWXM blind]
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T=3 L=93 above=Value is market size times growth times long-run share times long-run differential margin below=A network leader's benefit is pricing power, since each user values the larger installed base more | Netflix case and arithmetic are sourced; "recurring" is the soft part [S-X8B4CQJWXM re-placement]