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Apr 14, 2025 22 min

The Gorilla Game Part 3: Case studies

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The episode presents case studies analyzing business and investment strategies within rapidly growing technology markets, termed "tornadoes." The first case examines Oracle's triumph in the relational database tornado, illustrating how a "gorilla" company achieves market dominance. The second study focuses on Cisco's participation in multiple networking hardware tornadoes, highlighting strategies for investing in enabling technologies and identifying market leaders. The final, ongoing case study investigates the customer relationship management (CRM) software market, exploring the dynamics of application software gorillas and the convergence of related categories. These examples collectively aim to demonstrate principles for investors to identify and capitalize on dominant companies ("gorillas") in high-growth sectors, while also understanding the roles of competitors ("chimps" and "princes")

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