Hamilton Helmer
Co-Founder & Co-CIO @ Strategy Capital
Author of 7 Powers. Runs Strategy Capital, a focused investment firm.
βBusiness strategy with Hamilton Helmer (author of 7 Powers), covering strategic decision-making, startup building, and product design.β
Career History
| Company | Role | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Strategy Capital | Co-Founder & Co-CIO | ~2011-present |
| Deep Strategy (Helmer & Associates) | Founder & Principal | 1984-~2011 |
| Stanford University | Lecturer, Economics Department | ~1990s-2000s |
| Bain & Company | Consultant | ~1980-1984 |
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βYeah. Let's not. That conversation always goes too long.β
Business strategy with Hamilton Helmer (author of 7 Powers)
βThat's a great question Lenny, because I think the path to power is where the rubber meets the road and it's very complicated and nuanced. But I'll give you a few thoughts along it and frankly our nex...β
Business strategy with Hamilton Helmer (author of 7 Powers)
βRight. And you've done the right thing by not having me go through and define each of those. But your listeners will need to go back to my book and see what those things are to get... We're going thro...β
Business strategy with Hamilton Helmer (author of 7 Powers)
βChatGPT if they get it right sometimes I find they hallucinate.β
Business strategy with Hamilton Helmer (author of 7 Powers)
βYeah, kind of. I mean I have called it a type of power. So for me it's only those things which clear the significance barrier, hurdle rather that they're a large material. And so there are lots of thi...β
Business strategy with Hamilton Helmer (author of 7 Powers)
βYeah. So for me the difference is materiality is that whether the value benefit is large enough to engender a price delta significant enough to give you materially different margins into the future.β
Business strategy with Hamilton Helmer (author of 7 Powers)
βYeah, it's not an impact, it's a material impact. So it could have... If it's a penny to your bottom line, that's one thing if it's a billion dollars or something else.β
Business strategy with Hamilton Helmer (author of 7 Powers)
βI think you could turn almost anywhere and get some modest network effects and any platform business would probably likely have some modest network effects. You asked me earlier and you sent me about ...β
Business strategy with Hamilton Helmer (author of 7 Powers)
βYeah. Right. The advantage that they get, it's not material. Right.β
Business strategy with Hamilton Helmer (author of 7 Powers)
βYeah, it only works because there are modest scale economies. If there weren't any then if they did all this stuff, they'd still have a global and see.β
Business strategy with Hamilton Helmer (author of 7 Powers)
βRight. And so he's taking care of the benefit part by saying a castle.β
Business strategy with Hamilton Helmer (author of 7 Powers)
βI sadly don't have the time. I mean I do often do fireside chats at company meetings and that kind of thing, but not a full-blown course and I'm not teaching at Stanford anymore either. And so I don't...β
Business strategy with Hamilton Helmer (author of 7 Powers)