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Andrew Marks

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Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value

And you have companies like Apple and Amazon and Google and Microsoft that just continue to get bigger and bigger.

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Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value

And I think a lot of that comes from the fact that they're just continue to dominate more and more of various markets.

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Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value

Well, yeah.

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Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value

Yeah.

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Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value

And by the way, I wouldn't just say global markets.

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Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value

I would say strategically adjacent markets as well.

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Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value

Again, look at the big companies and how they continue to step out and do more and more in things that are tangential to their existing businesses.

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Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value

I mean, Amazon's a great example of that.

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Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value

They started in books, then they went to media and then continued on and on and on.

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Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value

And eventually they leveraged their scale into cloud computing and whatever.

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Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value

And that into databases and all sorts of stuff.

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Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value

Yep.

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Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value

And then this all, I think, dovetails into one other point that we made from the memo that I think is really important, which is that markets evolve and games evolve.

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Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value

I was an obsessive poker player.

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Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value

I've always been an obsessive games player generally.

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Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value

And my dad and I, we sit around and we'll play backgammon for forever and whatever.

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Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value

And I got obsessed with poker right when the poker boom happened, which was Chris Moneymaker won the World Series of Poker and they started online poker.

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Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value

Yeah, well done.

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Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value

That's very impressive poker trivia.

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Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value

So when online poker first launched and everyone got into the poker boom, because no one knew how to play and it was so new, if you just sat around, you played aces and kings and nothing else, you could win money.