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Seven Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy

Hamilton Helmer
Mentioned 24 times across 9 podcasts · 2018–2026
Mention timeline24 mentions
20182026
Where it's mentioned
2026
20VC: Who Wins the Inference Market | Has Open-Source LLM Inference Peaked? | What Happens to the Cost of Compute | The Real Limits of Post-Training and RL with Erik Bernhardsson, Modal CEO
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Nov 2026
“you go read like Seven Powers or like one of those things. Seven Powers It's a good book”
Home Depot
Acquired · Sep 2026
“where we try to figure out what does a company have that enables it to get persistent differential returns or to be more profitable than their nearest competitor on a sustainable basis. And those seven are scale economies, network economies, counterpositioning, switching costs, branding, cornered resource, and process power”
Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Sep 2026
“Seven Powers, you mentioned, um, is actually just an awesome book. It's I think it's a very intellectual distillation about kind of, you know, motes and business theory and compounding advantages”
I dropped out of college and built a $3.6B company from scratch
My First Million · Jul 2026
“If founders only read Seven powers”
TIP819: Lifco AB (LIFCO-B.ST): The Serial Acquirer Building an Unstoppable Compounding Engine w/ Kyle Grieve & Shawn O'Malley
The Investor's Podcast (We Study Billionaires) - The Investor’s Podcast Network · May 2026
“some listeners might consider this to be process power, which is a competitive advantage that Hamilton Hellbrenner uses in his book Seven Powers”
TIP818: NVR (NVR): What's Next for One of History's Greatest Compounders? w/ Kyle Grieve & Shawn O'Malley
The Investor's Podcast (We Study Billionaires) - The Investor’s Podcast Network · May 2026
“Hamilton Helmer writes about this in his famous book on motes called Seven Powers”
Claude Code Head Boris Cherny: Insane Growth, Tokenmaxxing, AI Agents' Next Frontier
Big Technology Podcast · May 2026
“There's this really good framework called the seven powers for talking about motes in business. You know, there there's so many of these frameworks for this, but this is my favorite”
TIP798: Nintendo Stock Deep Dive w/ Clay Finck
The Investor's Podcast (We Study Billionaires) - The Investor’s Podcast Network · Mar 2026
“If we consider the intellectual property through the lens of Hamilton Heldmer's Seven Powers, this primarily falls under the category of branding”
20VC: Codex vs Claude Code vs Cursor: Who Wins, Who Loses | Will All Coding Be Automated - Do We Need PMs | The Real Bottleneck to AGI | The Three Phases of Agents and What You Need to Know with Alex Embiricos, Head of Codex at OpenAI
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Feb 2026
“I'm a fan of Seven Powers, this brilliant book, which talks about kind of seven ways that businesses accrue value and sustainability”
Gokul Rajaram - Lessons from Investing in 700 Companies
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Jan 2026
“Harrison Helmer has this thing called seven powers. And so you got to have A few of those seven powers that basically are embedded in the business model from day one”
2025
My conversation with Daniel Ek: Founder of Spotify
Founders · Sep 2025
“guy Hamilton Hamler who wrote Seven Powers book”
2024
Which start-ups change the future? Investor Mike Maples Jr. with Reid Hoffman
Masters of Scale · Jul 2024
“The Seven Powers by Hamilton Helmer”
Business strategy with Hamilton Helmer (author of 7 Powers)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · May 2024
“He's the author of Seven Powers, which outlines a framework for identifying and developing sustainable competitive advantage”
Renaissance Technologies
Acquired · Mar 2024
“this is Hamilton Helmer's framework from the book Seven Powers”
Novo Nordisk (Ozempic)
Acquired · Jan 2024
“borrowed from our great friend Hamilton Helmer and his Wonderful book, Seven Powers”
2022
Amazon.com
Acquired · Aug 2022
“of course this is Us referencing the Hamilton Helmer book, Seven Powers”
2021
FTX (with Sam Bankman-Fried & Mario Gabriele)
Acquired · Dec 2021
“based on a book by Hamilton Helmer called Seven Powers”
7 Powers with Hamilton Helmer
Acquired · Dec 2021
“Before and in addition to writing seven powers, you're an active strategy consultant and a public equitior at Strategy Capital”
Francis Davidson - Design-led Hospitality - [Invest Like the Best, EP.253]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Nov 2021
“Hamilton, Hemler, Seven Powers Foundations of Business Strategy, I think is just a masterpiece”
Bitcoin
Acquired · Jan 2021
“based on one of our favorite books called Seven Powers, which is a study of how businesses can achieve persistent differential returns”
2020
The NBA
Acquired · Sep 2020
“friend of the show, Hamilton Helmer, and author of Seven Powers, to try and figure out What gives the NBA power as a business”
Pinduoduo
Acquired · Jul 2020
“I would love to go back and reread it, having read Seven Powers now”
Oprah (Harpo Studios)
Acquired · Jun 2020
“Hamilton Helmer's Seven Powers, of course”
2018
Keith Rabois - If You Can’t Sell Them, Compete with Them - [Invest Like the Best, EP.115]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Dec 2018
“There's a good book that I highly recommend people read on these kind of strategic trade offs called Seven Powers”