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Cover of 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy by Hamilton Helmer

7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy

Hamilton Helmer · 2016
Mentioned 18 times across 9 podcasts · 2019–2026
Mention timeline18 mentions
20192026
Where it's mentioned
2026
Corporate Athletes: Durable Competitive Advantages and Long-Term Investing
Value Investing with Legends · Oct 2026
“Let me just circle back around and just you mentioned Hamilton Helmer and the book there for our listeners just to make sure is a book called Seven Powers”
#869: Max Levchin, PayPal and Affirm — The Path from The Soviet Union to Building Multi-Billion Dollar Companies (Plus: Real-World Socialism vs. Capitalism)
The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2026
“There's this book called Seven Powers by Hamilton Himler. If you haven't read it, it's a really worthwhile distillation of what it takes to build a Competitively. lasting business”
20VC: Lessons from Jensen Huang on "Founder Mode" | How to Know if OpenAI or Anthropic Will Kill your Company | How USV Liking Music Made Them $1BN on an Investment | The Five Year Desert to Product Market Fit & a $5.3BN Valuation with Shiv Rao @ Abridge
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · May 2026
“I know because I love Hamilton Helm with seven powers”
How Replit Agent made $1M on day one (then $250M in a year)
My First Million · May 2026
“Hamilton Hamler wrote wrote this book called The Seven Powers. And everyone took a valley talks about moats”
TIP811: OTC Markets (OTCM): A Picks and Shovels Play in Modern Capital Markets w/ Kyle Grieve & Shawn O'Malley
The Investor's Podcast (We Study Billionaires) - The Investor’s Podcast Network · Apr 2026
“this is a basically a power from Hamilton Helmer that was highlighted in his book, Seven Powers”
Possible: Amjad Masad on vibe coding, AI agents, and the end of boilerplate
Masters of Scale · Jan 2026
“one of my favorite books is”
Costco
Acquired · Jan 2026
“which is adapted from Hamilton Helmer's Seven Powers book, which is an amazing framework for business strategy”
2025
“Dumbest idea I’ve heard” to $100M ARR: Inside the rise of Gamma | Grant Lee (CEO)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Nov 2025
“there's a book called Seven Powers by Hamilton Helmer”
Google Part I: Origins of Search
Acquired · Jun 2025
“And for new listeners to the show, this is based on a book called Seven Powers by Hamilton Helmer”
Epic Systems (MyChart)
Acquired · Apr 2025
“The question is What is it about any given business that allows them to achieve persistent differential returns? Or to be more profitable than their closest competitor. on a sustainable basis. And there's seven of these. There's counter positioning, scale economies, switching costs. Network economies, process power, branding, and cornered resource. And as usual. We have to separate the takeoff phase. from the phase that they're in today”
2024
Pattern Breakers: How to find a breakthrough startup idea | Mike Maples, Jr. (Founding Partner at Floodgate, ex-Product at Silicon Graphics)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Jul 2024
“That reminds me of counter positioning from Hamilton Hamilton Helmer's Seven Powers book”
Anne-Marie Peterson - The Capital System - [Invest Like the Best, EP.364]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Mar 2024
“Have you read that book, Seven Powers”
Good Strategy, Bad Strategy | Richard Rumelt
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Jan 2024
“There's also the book, obviously The Seven Powers that a lot of people are aware of”
2023
Lockheed Martin
Acquired · May 2023
“this is adapted from a framework that Hamilton Helmer created in his book Seven Powers”
2021
Special: Amazon Unbound (with Brad Stone)
Acquired · May 2021
“I'm number one on Seven Powers, right”
2020
Special: Invest Like the Best on Acquired
Acquired · Oct 2020
“like, Hey, there's this book in this guy, Hamilton Elmer. Best kept secret in Silicon Valley. This is a fantastic book. And so I listened to that. I picked up the book. I was like, Ben, you gotta read this book”
Adapting Episode 3: Intel
Acquired · May 2020
“In the words of the Hamilton Helmer from her. great LP episode in his book Seven Powers”
2019
Zack Kanter – All Things Business - [Invest Like the Best, EP.142]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Aug 2019
“You can't just go out and read seven powers and say, I'm gonna do this one and this is gonna be in my business”