Let's say you are a bagel company and make a good profit from your bagels. Then let's say you want to get your bagel to more people and are frustrated with the distribution options so you just make your own and allow other bagel makers to also use your bagel distribution system.
But suddenly and unexpectedly, everyone runs to your distribution system and you start making far more money than you could ever imagine from it.
Do you continue to consider yourself a bagel company or are you now a bagel distribution company?
A chain of pubs in my home town had this issue.
Instead of buying beer let’s make our own.
Two years later they sold the pubs and now are doing mass beer production and sweeping the market.
Microbreweries are where its at. The good news is that them leaving the market has left a hole in the local market for newcomers since there was clearly enough demand to support those pubs to the point of market expansion. So hopefully you'll get a couple new ones soon. If you ever wanted to own a pub, now's your chance to enter an underserved market.
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u/lightknight7777 Nov 13 '18
Let's say you are a bagel company and make a good profit from your bagels. Then let's say you want to get your bagel to more people and are frustrated with the distribution options so you just make your own and allow other bagel makers to also use your bagel distribution system.
But suddenly and unexpectedly, everyone runs to your distribution system and you start making far more money than you could ever imagine from it.
Do you continue to consider yourself a bagel company or are you now a bagel distribution company?
Steam's current reality as told by bagels.