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Life & fun · October 17, 2015

a16z - The topic that’s lasted the entire history of computing — bundling and unbundling

Sinofsky and Evans explain bundling & unbundling

a16z - The topic that’s lasted the entire history of computing — bundling and unbundling launched on October 17, 2015 with 60 votes, #1,398 of 4,175 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.

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Jim Barksdale in the run-up to the Netscape IPO told potential investors that you can make money in software in two ways: bundling and unbundling. Benedict Evans and Steven Sinofsky revisit that thesis in the context of a mobile app world — how Facebook for example, is unbundling itself, while at the same time Baidu...

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