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The 7 Powers Known to Tesla, Pixar, Netflix, Apple & Twilio
The universe of fundraising and vanity metrics may fool you into believing that your current performance is indicative of future success. But therein lies a logical fallacy:
Performance is a trailing indicator. Power is a leading one.
“Power” in this context is the underlying mechanism that makes your company defensible.
Look at today’s great CEOs running highly defensible companies Jeff Lawson at Twilio ($67B market cap), Daniel Ek at Spotify ($56B), Reed Hastings at Netflix ($224B), and Patrick Collison at Stripe ($95B valuation).
They’re all practitioners of a little-known framework called “7 Powers” created by author, strategist & Stanford professor Hamilton Helmer. Helmer’s framework reveals that you can