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  10 Incumbent offers mediocre service at high cost.
  20 Alternative appears that's better faster cheaper stronger.
  30 Alternative gains significant marketshare.
  40 Consumer surplus extraction mode. Also some customers miss features from the old platform (bloat).
  50 goto 10

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Funny thing is this cycle seems broken. So many deep pocketed competitors have stomped in and skewed the content market by showering money on all the producers.

In turn this has drove up the pricing, enabled exploitation by subpar producers, and over-extension of streamer capital in a bid to stay competitive.

Implosion and consolidate seems inevitable, the market just isn’t big enough to support 5x Netflix sized companies.

It does seem like there should be an opportunity to fund promising content that costs more than $0 (YouTube has that covered) and less than hundreds of millions. Almost like a YC model. What happens if you find someone with a decent premise and give them a bit of money and loaner equipment to make a pilot? They could even make it into an “American Idol” style competition to get funding for more episodes/a full series.

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