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Seven Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy

Hamilton Helmer
Mentioned 23 times across 9 podcasts · 2018–2026
Mention timeline23 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 · 10:20
“you go read like seven powers or like one of those things seven powers it's a good book ”
Home Depot
Acquired · Sep 2026 · 196:25
“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 · 72:43
“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 · 41:03
“if founders only read seven powers ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 5s
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 · 37:56
“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 · 37:02
“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 · 48:47
“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 · 46:06
“if we consider the intellectual property through the lens of hamilton heldmer's seven powers this primarily falls under the category of branding ”
Gokul Rajaram - Lessons from Investing in 700 Companies
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Jan 2026 · 24:00
“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 ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 10s
2025
My conversation with Daniel Ek: Founder of Spotify
Founders · Sep 2025 · 62:10
“guy hamilton hamler who wrote seven powers book ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 3s
2024
Which start-ups change the future? Investor Mike Maples Jr. with Reid Hoffman
Masters of Scale · Jul 2024 · 31:30
“the seven powers by hamilton helmer ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 3s
Business strategy with Hamilton Helmer (author of 7 Powers)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · May 2024 · 0:49
“he's the author of seven powers which outlines a framework for identifying and developing sustainable competitive advantage ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 6s
Renaissance Technologies
Acquired · Mar 2024 · 139:30
“this is hamilton helmer's framework from the book seven powers ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 3s
Novo Nordisk (Ozempic)
Acquired · Jan 2024 · 162:28
“borrowed from our great friend hamilton helmer and his wonderful book seven powers ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 4s
2022
Amazon.com
Acquired · Aug 2022 · 192:21
“of course this is us referencing the hamilton helmer book seven powers ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 4s
2021
FTX (with Sam Bankman-Fried & Mario Gabriele)
Acquired · Dec 2021 · 64:54
“based on a book by hamilton helmer called seven powers ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 3s
7 Powers with Hamilton Helmer
Acquired · Dec 2021 · 4:26
“before and in addition to writing seven powers you're an active strategy consultant and a public equitior at strategy capital ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 8s
Francis Davidson - Design-led Hospitality - [Invest Like the Best, EP.253]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Nov 2021 · 42:13
“hamilton hemler seven powers foundations of business strategy i think is just a masterpiece ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 4s
Bitcoin
Acquired · Jan 2021 · 133:36
“based on one of our favorite books called seven powers which is a study of how businesses can achieve persistent differential returns ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 7s
2020
The NBA
Acquired · Sep 2020 · 120:43
“friend of the show hamilton helmer and author of seven powers to try and figure out what gives the nba power as a business ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 7s
Pinduoduo
Acquired · Jul 2020 · 112:02
“i would love to go back and reread it having read seven powers now ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 4s
Oprah (Harpo Studios)
Acquired · Jun 2020 · 77:41
“hamilton helmer's seven powers of course ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 2s
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 · 5:09
“there's a good book that i highly recommend people read on these kind of strategic trade offs called seven powers ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 5s