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[FOUR] Shift4

A tour through payments: part 3 (SQ, FOUR)

February 2, 2023

Block (SQ) I once argued how by taking the problem of merchant payments acceptance seriously, [...]

[ADYEN] Adyen N.V. [FIS] Fidelity National Information [FISV] Fiserv [GPN] Global Payments

A tour through payments: part 2 (Adyen, GPN, FIS, FISV)

January 16, 2023

Hi everyone, scuttleblurb is now on Substack (link). You don’t need to do anything. scuttleblurb [...]

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[MA] Mastercard [V] Visa

A tour through payments: part 1 (Visa and Mastercard)

December 22, 2022

This is my last post of the year. Before getting into it, here are some [...]

[SITE] SiteOne

[SITE] SiteOne Landscape Supply

November 28, 2022

SiteOne sources 135k landscaping SKUs from 5k suppliers and distributes to 280k customers, most of [...]

[VRSK] Verisk Analytics

November 28, 2022

One job of an insurance commissioner is to ensure that carriers under their jurisdiction have [...]

[LYV] Live Nation

[LYV – Live Nation] On Flywheels and Bundles

Posted on April 24, 2018April 24, 2018 by scuttleblurb

Related Post: [LYV – Live Nation Entertainment] Some of It’s Magic, Some of It’s Tragic In my last blurb on Live Nation, I fussed over impending competition from Amazon, which was populating its US site with “Amazon Tickets” job listings that included the following salvo: “The ticketing business is ripe for innovation and improvement, as much […]

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[LYV] Live Nation

[LYV – Live Nation Entertainment] Some of It’s Magic, Some of It’s Tragic

Posted on April 11, 2017April 11, 2018 by scuttleblurb

Live Nation’s business model is unique, contextually rich, and complicated. While I think this is a decent business – to see this you have to consider all its parts, some of which are mediocre on a standalone basis, as an interlocking whole – I don’t think the purported “platform” is as interesting as I initially […]