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Inflation prices

Hosted Games is going to raise the price of all of their games on January 19th — it's been years, but it seems inflation has caught up with them. This won't affect newer releases much, like the Rose, but it may have a pretty substantial price increase in some of the older titles. 

The Golden Rose will go up 15% percent — so if you want to buy it, now's the time to do it! Outside of Steam sales, it'll never be this low price again.

However, some old gems will have bigger price changes, and I wanted to take this opportunity to shine some light on a few of my old favorite HG games. If the summaries interest you, give the free demos a try!

(I'll be linking the COG page, where you can find the links to Steam, Google Play, the App Store, and Amazon at the bottom of the screen).

Tin Star (50% price increase) — Step into the shoes of a US marshal in the old, wild west. It's a very big game, full of hard decisions and a great cast of characters (Preston, you cocky bastard, I love you). You can be a terrible person, a saint, or anything in between. 

Zombie Exodus (60% increase) — Try to survive a zombie apocalypse. There are dangerous missions to navigate, complicated power dynamics between survivors, and, of course, friends and lovers to remind you what it is you're fighting for. This is an old game, but it was one of the first IFs I read, and to this day the story and characters hold a special place in my heart. 

Zombie Exodus: Safe Haven (40%) — This one isn't really an old game, but I want to include it since the price increase is still substantial and, if you enjoy the first ZE, you will LOVE this. The author took everything from the first game and made it better. You can see how much he has improved. From customization (it's mind-blowing), to relationships, to writing atmospheres - I was legitimately scared in some parts! Plus, the different prologues are so good and... just try it! I adore this game so much. 

Way Walkers: University (40%) — Play as a student in a prestigious magic school. The magic system is super interesting, as is the world at large. But, by far, the best thing about this game and its sequel are the characters. It has one of my favorite ROs in any IF games, Semryu, and the way your friendship develops into a tentative romance is so well done. There's also mystery and tension, and I cannot wait for Book 3! 

Double/Cross (60%) — Okay, I'll admit: I don't remember a lot about this game. It's been years since I read it, but I do remember, however, really liking it! You work as a bodyguard for the richest man in England, and not everything is as it seems. I like it because it subverts your expectations, and when I got my "happy ending" I... did not feel happy at all. It's really interesting and not very long, so I encourage everyone to give it a try!

So, You're Possessed! (50%) — Oh, how to explain this game? You start as a pizza delivery person, and then you meet a demon and your life is thrown upside down. It's been years since I've played it but it has always remained a special little gem. I don't want to spoil the story too much, so just give it a try!

Evertree Inn (40%) — Again, not exactly old, but I think the price increase warrants it on the list. I also think most of you are familiar with the game and its sequels, but I want to mention it anyway. Solve a mystery in a secluded tavern and watch out for the murderer! You can play as a number of fantasy races — dwarf, elf, etc— and interact with a cast of colorful characters. It's just such a fun game, and it leads to a great adventure in the sequel. 

Fallen Hero: Rebirth (40%) — Okay, okay, I know. You all have the game already plus, it isn't technically "old". Well, may this serve as an announcement that Fallen Hero is about to get 40% more expensive, and if by some chance some of you haven't played it yet, you should absolutely do so now. The sequel is coming, and it's held as one of the best IFs ever published. A reputation that, in my opinion, is more than deserved. 

Happy reading! I hope you find at least one game that'll bring you joy.♡

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The War on Made Use Of Gamings

As we plan for the coming wave of future generation systems, we need to be expecting renovations on all the good ideas we connect with the existing crop of systems. Moving on, we anticipate: much better graphics, faster CPUs, more appealing games, you get the idea. 

Not everything that we're preparing for will be a progressive activity for pc gaming. A minimum of, as for Sony and also Microsoft are concerned, you can swing farewell to playing utilized games on their systems. 

Although these are simply rumors at this point, it wouldn't be surprising if they came to fulfillment. It's possible, specifically when taking into account that numerous game authors have already discharged chance ats the used video game market.

Most noteworthy is Electronic Arts(EA), who became the first publisher to set up the method of billing gamers, that bought made use of video games, a fee to access codes that feature the game. 

To clarify, Downloadable Content(DLC) codes are included with new copies of a particular video game and just with those codes, can that web content be accessed. 

EA increased its job to include playing used games online. Players would certainly currently have to pay $10, along with the price of the used game that they purchased, to have accessibility to the on the internet elements of their video game. 

Ubisoft has given that followed suit, requiring an on the internet masquerade its video games too. You can determine the games which require an on the internet pass as they are the "Uplay Passport," logo design on the box.

 Ubisoft determined they would certainly take things an action additionally and carry out Digital Rights Management, a method more often associated with DVD or CD anti-piracy initiatives. 

Assassins Creed 2 was the first video game to be impacted by this practice. To play the PC variation of Assassins Creed 2 gamers are called for to create an account with Ubisoft and also continue to be logged right into that account to play the game. That implies that if you shed your net link, the game will instantly pause as well as attempt to improve the connection. 

If you're unfavorable adequate to be unable to reconnect the net you'll have to continue from your last conserved video game; shedding any development; you may have made because after that. 

That will certainly be the case for every one of Ubisoft's COMPUTER titles, despite one having fun single-player or multi-player. While Digital Rights Management has been used to battle DVD and CD piracy for fairly time currently, this will note the very first time it been made use of for a video game. 

Due to Ubisoft's application of DRM, Matthew Humphries of Geek.com, warns that it's viable that at some point also gaming console games will certainly require on-line enrollment play them.

 According to Denis Dyack, the head of Silicon Knights, the sale of utilized video games is cannibalizing the earnings of the primary video game market. 

He also declares that the made use of the video game market is somehow causing the cost of new video games to rise. There are also reports that the X-Box 720 will certainly accept the exclusive usage of digital downloads as well as not make use of disks at all.

 One might argue that Sony has currently laid the ground help stopping utilized video games from working on their future system. 

At the minimum, they've already made fairly an initiative to make used video games substantially less preferable. Kath Brice, of Games industry.biz, reported that the most up to date SOCOM game for PSP, SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo 3, will certainly call for customers that purchase a utilized copy to pay an enhancement $20 bucks to get a code for online play.

 I would certainly like to see some measurable proof to sustain the case that made use of video games are in reality, hurting the sales of brand-new video games at all. 

Correct me if I'm incorrect however you haven't heard Infinity Ward grumbling concerning the made use of the game market as well as it affecting their bottom line. 

Possibly the problem isn't that used video games have an unfavorable impact on the sale of new games but, the trouble is rather that game developer require to make far better video games that gamers are willing to pay full rate for.

 In my point of view, not every game is worth $60 simply because it's the recommended retail price. Looking at points fairly not every game is produced similarly. As a result, not every video game is deserving of costing $60.

 I think that the War on Used Games is nothing more than a money grab by developers, distressed that they're unable to capitalize a very financially rewarding market. 

To put it in bucks and also cents, in 2009 Game Stop reported almost 2.5 million dollars in income from the sale of utilized gaming consoles as well as utilized games. And also not one red cent of that profit gets to the pockets of game authors. 

Greed as the encouraging factor for the statement of War on Used Games is transparent. Especially when you think about that when Game Stop began separating their profits from brand-new video games as well as used video games in their economic declarations, EA after that instituted their 10 dollar cost for utilized video games.

 The development in the 2nd version of the video game, which allows you to disembowel your opponents, is sufficient of a uniqueness that I 'd like to play via it at some point. I can acquire it currently, utilized, for regarding ten bucks. My point is that video game designers are not losing cash cause of used video games; you can not miss out on loan you weren't going to receive anyhow.

 Unless you have a significant quantity of non reusable earnings and a significant amount of leisure time, you're possibly like me, and also you focus on which games you prepare to purchase and also how much you're eager to pay for them. 

You determine which video games are should riches and which video games you 'd such as to play yet agree to await a rate decline before getting them. Then there are the video games which you're interested in, but they tend to fail the cracks because they're not all that high up on your radar as well as you'll maybe select them up a number of months later, or even years after their release, if you ever before picking them up in all.

 I find it ironic that the impending death of the used game market can likely mean the death of Game Stop that, ironically, push their customers to brand-new pre-order games and also acquire them at full price. 

One would think that game authors would be appreciative regarding this service as well as not dislike Game Stop and also treat utilized video games with such refuse. Pre orders not only help advertise their video games; however, they work as a forecast of possible sales too. 

Also Dave Their a contributor for Forbes Online, that explains Game Stop as, "a parasitical bloodsucker that does not do much besides mark up discs and being in the shopping mall," acknowledges the folly of passing the problem of the utilized game market onto the customer.

 I've just as soon as pre-ordered a game myself. At the wish of J. Agamemnon, I pre-ordered Battlefield 3, which is paradoxically a residential or commercial property of EA. 

I paid full cost for this game and more than happy to do so. In big part, since I was given access to several weapons as well as maps that I would have had to wait to download had I not pre-ordered it. I suggest that instead of penalizing players for wanting to save their difficult-earned cash, the pc gaming industry requires to find out to incentivize players into intending to bet to that 60 dollar price.

 I labeled this write-up The War on Used Games in an initiative to be jokingly and poke enjoyable at how whenever the government proclaims battle on medications or horror or whatever it might be, they only succeed in intensifying the problem. 

If the gaming sector does indeed go down this path; they'll only harm themselves in the long run, fall short to share in the profits they so greedily fancy as well as worst of all, hurt their consumers, that keep the gaming industry abreast with currency.

 It's extremely paradoxical and also in fact very fitting that it's EA that is heading the effort to assault the used video game market when they are one of the biggest beneficiaries of made use of games. 

Chips world MD Don Mc Cabe informed Games Industry.biz that EA has what he referred to as a "franchise business software application home" in that they "update their titles; FIFA, Madden; all of these are effectively the same title updated each year. Shutting down the utilized video games market efficiently ruins a tried and real technique in which followers of EA's franchises maintain updated with each of EA's annual releases.

 Don McCabe, an exec at Chipsworld, discusses that "customers won't flourish under this new system, as duplicates of the game will certainly shed their resale value.

That implies that ultimately it will be the publisher who ends up shedding money because when merchants readjust their prices to show the rise in price for made use of games, the resale worth of the game will go down and also brand-new games are much less most likely to be purchased.

 I'm a follower of numerous EA franchises; I appreciate Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed, and also I'm a resist Sony PlayStation enthusiast. As their client, I'm annoyed and also upset by their current methods. I am afraid wherefore future techniques they may utilize to more suppressor perhaps kill the utilized video game market. 

That claimed, I'm confident that these firms will certainly be responsive to the outcry of their clients and also abide by our wants. I beg them to stop punishing their customers for catching what they regard as missed revenues. 

They take the chance of not just alienating their customers however, they run the risk of discovering themselves with significantly fewer clients and also significantly fewer earnings. As well as at the end of the day, that's the lower line.

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Weekend Top Ten #521

Top Ten Things I’d Like from Xbox in 2022

It’s all want, want, want, isn’t it? You’re never satisfied. No sooner do you have something nice and shiny than you want the next nicer, shinier thing.

And by “you” I mean, of course, “me”.

Except that’s not really what this is about. In what’s becoming something of a regular occurrence, I’m once more dedicating my list to the future of Xbox. Because, well, everyone in my house plays on the Xbox a lot, so I tend to think a lot about what more I’d like from Xbox. Don’t get me wrong, they offer a great service; whilst it should always stick in anyone’s craw to get too fawning and praiseworthy over another faceless trillion dollar company and its attempts to part your money from your wallet, I have to say that overall the services offered by Microsoft vis-à-vis the Xbox and its related flimflam are, well, good. I like them.

Take Game Pass. A tenner a month for a load of “free” games? Yeah, sounds cool; great value in fact. But I’ve got other games that I’ve actually bought – some of them came on a disc – so am I throwing good money after bad? Am I not just adding to my backlog of Unplayed Gems? Yeah, sure, whatever; except that, once you’re in the service, you appreciate just how useful it is to keep abreast of popular trends in the industry, how it allows you to sample games and genres you wouldn’t normally try. Coupled with PC titles and cloud gaming, it’s just a delight to be a part of; a really, genuinely, good service that not only offers good value, but also enriches the experience of owning an Xbox.

That’s not to say it can’t be improved!

Yes, despite giving us state-of-the-art gaming hardware and industry-leading gaming services, there are many Microsoft nits to pick if you want to go there. And that’s what this list is; a bunch of stuff that I’d like to see from Xbox over the next twelve months, as it evolves and improves its offering. Clunky issues with their interface, missing features, quality-of-life improvements… just stuff that I think would be cool. Whilst most of this is personal – in the sense it’s stuff I want – I’ve tried to be more-or-less realistic in terms of things that I think they could do, if they wanted. Maybe.

One thing I’ve not mentioned is the age-old cry of “release some games”. It’s true that proper next-gen exclusive titles are still thin on the ground (Flight Sim and The Medium are the only ones I think?), and whilst the updated versions of big releases (everything from Halo to Forza to Cyberpunk) are impressive, there is the sense that the new, sexy hardware hasn’t had the chance to really show off yet, over a year after its release. But we know games are coming; they’ve announced a ton of them, and they just spent seventy squillion squids on a ferociously toxic gaming brand, so there’ll be even more shunted down your game-pipe before you know it. In fact, with the list of confirmed and highly-probable upcoming releases, there aren’t many more I can think of that would get me all frothy, unless they announced they’d bought the Monkey Island IP from Disney and had brought back Ron Gilbert to make the realpart three. So, games are a given; we want them, but we know they’re coming.

The rest though? Fair game. So come on, Xbox, what are you waiting for?

Family Accounts: I already have an “Xbox Family” and it's good that everyone in my house can play my games. But as Game Pass spreads across multiple devices, it’d be nice to share that access. Let the PC app switch accounts between my family; let my daughter stream games on her tablet under her own profile. I get there might be limitations, but can it work like having two Xboxes in one household? I feel something like this has to come, without significant price increases, just to address how crucial Game Pass is becoming.

More Games to Stream: basically, I want to be able to stream any game I own, not just ones on Game Pass. Okay, maybe it can only be digital games, that's fine; but I’d love to stream Civilization VI to my phone (or even my PC, as it runs better on Xbox!). And please put PC games onto the cloud too; just to save hard drive space, it’d be great to stream Age of Empires on my laptop.

Improved Achievements: the most neglected corner of the Xbox ecosystem, I’d say. Bring them to the forefront once again. A better way to view and showcase what we've got; an easier way to access them. Also make them more interesting; give us more stats (including playtime), more detailed breakdowns of how close we are or what we’re doing. Additional details and maybe rewards for completion of s campaign or for 100%-ing a game.

System-level Settings: essentially I want to tick a box saying “always invert Y”, and have that then be the default controller setting for every game. The Xbox 360 did this years ago; why can't we bring it back? Lots of other game settings should be able to be configured at a system level, including a preference for performance vs resolution modes.

A Better Guide: another thing the Xbox 360 got right straight out of the gate was the Guide. It's taken the entire Xbox One generation but the current iteration is almost as good again. But it can be better; the 360 version contained essentially the entire console in miniature, to the point where it was often easier to use the Guide than the full dashboard. Better achievement navigation, full settings, full game library, Game Pass catalogue, Games With Gold... There’s a lot more functionality they could add to it, especially if you allow for cascading menus to show more details.

Simpler Party Structure: this one is more for my kids, really, as I'm a sad loner, but the process of setting up a party seems a bit too complicated. I think the idea of a “party” is basically a group chat of people who can follow you game to game, but it just seems fiddly. Make the options super-clear; have the UI tell you exactly what’s going on; put all the options for what to do next – join a game, etc – in the Guide UI. And maybe colour code stuff, or put boxes around it, so it’s really clear who’s together and what they’re doing. Essentially I’m trying to child-proof a system-level feature, but I don’t think that’s a bad thing.

More Clipping & Sharing Options:saving a screenshot or a short video clip is easy, but then what you have to do with them is a big faff. Let me organise my screenshots, put them in folders, and above all, automatically upload them to OneDrive. Same goes for video clips, but here, bring back the old editor – or a new improved one. Let us manually craft them, edit multiple clips together, add voiceover or whatever, and upload them to where we want. Make it easier to get to all this stuff too, maybe with context-sensitive menus in the improved Guide I mentioned before?

Better Dashboard Navigation: the current Xbox dashboard has come in for some stick since the first iteration on the Xbox One. Personally, I’ve never had much of a problem with it, but it can still be clunky to work your way around. One massively irritating thing is just going back and forwards in menus, where sometimes “B” takes you back one level, sometimes it takes you back to your last game. Different options are on the home page depending on what’s being promoted, and just going into the Store doesn’t flag up all the recent deals. Similarly, finding Games With Gold is awkward unless you pin it to Home. And the whole process of pinning things and scrolling through a list of, I suppose “favourite parts of Xbox”, is still fiddly. Personally I’d rather have tabs at the top you could cycle through with left and right bumpers – but that does sound a bit like going back to the nearly-twenty-years-old Xbox 360 “blades” interface. Hmmm…

More Multimedia Options: the Xbox is great for watching, y’know, Netflix and stuff. And I understand it does have support for quite a few other video formats. But I still find it a bit too awkward. I want it to have much better, faster, smoother OneDrive integration, so you can really easily watch videos you have saved on your own cloud storage; this includes it remembering where you last were in the video (whilst we’re on the subject, being able to pin OneDrive folders to the Home page would be really useful). Also, Blu-ray support could be better; the drive can weirdly be very loud on different discs, and using the controller isn’t the easiest (not really sure how that can be solved outside of buying a remote, I guess). I’d love it if the Xbox could save the position on a disc to the hard drive, so whenever you take the disc out it still remembers where you were. As it is, it almost always kicks you back to the menu, even if you just navigate away from the app once. Issues like this make it more awkward than it should be to use the Xbox as a full-blown multimedia box, which is mostly what we do as we don’t have another UHD-capable BD player. How about updating the video player app to do everything with really clear tabs and options within?

One Xbox App: I have three Xbox apps on my phone: Game Pass, Xbox, and Family. Why can’t they be one? And why can’t they be functionally the same as the app on PC? Make the whole experience smoother and sleeker and just less faffy. Game Pass is Xbox at this point; there’s no real differentiating between the two, just like there’s no real differentiating between those who have Gold and those who don’t. Some people have more options and access to more features, but that’s it; just open those aspects of the app up on an as-needed basis. Let me simply access games, captures, achievements; view them easier, swipe between them, download and upload them. Bring back some of the old Smart Glass features to make it easier to use the phone as an extension of the console – can you still use it as a remote, or to type? I don’t know. Whilst we’re on the subject, give me the option to view and download Xbox games via the PC app, and vice versa; and how’s about letting us buy games from the mobile app, even if that’s just a redirect to the website, to get around Apple/Google’s rules about in-app purchases? Anyway, I just feel there’s a lot of streamlining they can do.

I kinda annoy myself when I do these things and start to get more and more carried away, so number ten on the list is five times longer than number one, but never mind. As you can see, these are mostly niggles and smoothings-out. I didn’t mention some others, either, such as improvements to Quick Resume (let me pin one game so it never goes away! Save Quick Resume to the Cloud for when I play a game elsewhere!). Also nothing about hardware - where are my sexy haptic controllers?! Anyway, there you go. It’s a list. Now off with you.

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The shield meter shows you how much time you have up until your city ends up being at risk to attack by hostile gamers in multiplayer. So, in short, we offer players convenience without ever before requiring our players to pay or obtain viral to proceed. A gamer is needed to open the next collection of levels as soon as they clear level 35. After that, Candy Crush Legend calls for the very same point every 15 levels.

Created by Supercell - the very same guys that brought you Clash of Clans - Hay Day APK is an attractive simulation where the crops never pass away, even though it never rainfalls. All you need to do is attach your ranch to the exact same Google+ account on both devices if you would like to play your ranch on two various Android tools.

Approximately 60 gamers per map will be visible. What the live-action film doesn't show is that the real-life ranch scents were probably solid sufficient to make the gamers glad they were simply checking out, as well as eager to stick to the online variation for day-to-day use. mart. Various other animals will be later added broaden the game at a later stage, but typically in the meantime the game will develop around simulating livestock farming. As of version(0.6), the gameplay does not have much web content, but growth continues since writing this paper.

But what I discovered with Hay Day is that the magic isn't just in the core loop or features. Profession animals, plants and also ideas with your buddies and invite them to look around your farm as well as contrast. You are matched against others of a similar degree in multiplayer. I believe the success can likewise be connected to our strategy, as we stay clear of showing players just how to play the game.

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If you need more coins & diamonds to finish upgrades or get things in Hay Day, the only means to do that is through the in-game shop which runs through iTunes and also Google Play. Hay Day is addicting, and also being a free app means that the obstacle to download the game is very reduced. You'll have the ability to grow and tend to your crops, increase pets, fish, and also trade with your friends.

Swiping across plots of land to gather plants, feed animals and also manufacture items is pleasantly enjoyable, and also growing your little farm right into a growing business is a hugely rewarding success. If Supercell is able to include a method for people to buy goods in a securities market means(where market prices are set by purchasers as well as vendors as well as fluctuations are normal ), it would probably make the game much more eye-catching.

Firstly, we had the ability to dramatically enhance the novice flow of users, as well as to show that gamers understood every one of the game's attributes. KOPlayer is compatible with nearly all games on Google Play Store. Maybe various other neighborhoods or solo players. This ought to suffice, as well as Hay Day need to currently use to pack up your old farm.

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‘It’s just business’

How MLB became a microcosm of capitalism’s failure.

“It’s just business.” You hear it whenever some marginalized community loses a necessary service, or when a sick person is denied sorely needed coverage for their health, or when a laborer’s basic humanity is impugned, all in the name of the almighty dollar.

It’s a phrase spring-loaded with the connotation that “businesses” are in the business of doing anything and everything to make money, and that their mere existence justifies the collateral damage they cause. On some level, it’s difficult to blame people if they default to “it’s just business” when they encounter a wrong being done by a company that manufactures their steel cut oats or designer toothbrushes — if only because, hell, we all need to get on with our day.

We’ve been told “it’s just business” so often in our lives that we accept it as easily as air. It has become a state of existence, perpetuated by economic titans such as Milton Friedman, who declared “there is one and only one social responsibility of business: to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game.”

Plenty of people disagree with this worldview, but there’s no denying the rules of the game are ill-defined, malleable, unenforced and yet somehow ubiquitous. What they are not is equitable or ethical.

Major League Baseball is a prime example, having emphasized its bottom line at the expense of both players and fans by constantly changing the rules of the game. It has done so despite having already bilked cities, counties and states for tax breaks and public dollars for stadiums, despite an antitrust exemption upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, and despite the foundational importance of fans as stakeholders in its individual organizations and the league.

There isn’t (yet) a salary cap, but front offices — likely due to pressure from ownership — have begun to treat the aptly named Competitive Balance Tax as a line in the sand. In 2012, MLB placed a heavy tax on spending more than five percent of one’s draft allotment that no team has yet to breach. Once the ability to spend freely in the draft was eliminated, teams used the international free agent market to build teams cheaply relative to the free agent market, proper. The most recent CBA tried to put a stop to that by implementing a hard cap on international spending, but regular free agency spending never bounced back. And despite these supposed great competitive balance measures, MLB has experienced record talent disparity over the last two offseasons.

The words “competitive balance” and “parity” often get used in sports, the idea being that leagues should strive for an environment where some combination of talent, intelligence, stamina and plain old luck decides champions, and not budgetary advantages. To that end, leagues and owners pursued options like salary caps, the draft, the reserve clause, international spending caps, luxury taxes, draft pick compensation, restricted free agency … the list goes on.

And conveniently, all of these measures come at the expense of labor. It’s not just salary caps, which are a transfer of wealth from players (labor) to owners, but the draft, too, which eliminates the ability of draftees to leverage teams against each other. Competitive balancing is always about limiting the top spenders rather than prodding the cheapskates.

As consumers, we’ve gotten used to rationalizing upcharges or degraded service, like the collective action of major American airlines which started offering a “basic economy” class that is helpful only to people who are traveling long distances on airplanes without bags (as we all love to do). We come to believe our inconvenience is helping a company stay afloat and continue to provide a service we otherwise wouldn’t have. Too often, though, we are being underserved and oversold in the pursuit of a temporarily attractive bottom line that will boost a stock price just long enough for that company to sell itself to another corporation, leaving them, and us, to hold the bag.

It doesn’t have to work this way though, mostly because this way isn’t working out for the vast majority. As Anu Aga, ex-chairperson of the giant engineering firm Thermax Limited, said “we survive by breathing but we can’t say we live to breathe. Likewise, making money is very important for a business to survive, but money alone cannot be the reason for business to exist.”

Baseball isn’t a vital industry to humanity, but it is a good study in how capitalism corrupts itself. In theory, a baseball team’s goals are simple: win games and entertain fans. By pursuing profit, it can also aim higher, building community spirit in the process. But in practice, baseball has become cheap and callous. After decades of spiritual degradation, MLB has come to epitomize the clash between society and late capitalism, and the ways in which capitalism is winning.

It’s strange that shareholder-first ideology has become so prevalent in sports. Efficiency uber-alles, especially in baseball, is orthodoxy these days, but that certainly wasn’t always the case. The late-era George Steinbrenner Yankees were built upon the Core Four, and supplemented by mercenary free agents who helped bring World Series titles to the Bronx.

And yet, after a pair of frosty offseasons, MLB now presides over organizations that routinely pass over premium talent at prices that are more than justifiable by public advanced metrics.

For a long time, $/WAR was the default framework by which free agent signings or trades were evaluated. This inevitably led to teams to lean on quality, young talent that was — and this is crucial — under team control for long periods of time. That control, which gives teams unilateral ability to decide salary for the first three years of any player’s career, became an end unto itself. It wasn’t rare to read something along the lines of “yes, Team A dealt away Superstar X to Team B for a smattering of players you haven’t heard of, but Team B will receive 15 controllable seasons in return, while Team A will receive only a year.”

Efficiency was, and is, the name of the game. It’s not enough to win, but you also have to appear smart while doing so. This is, in part, why teams don’t simply promote their prospects to the majors when they’re ready. Instead, they wait until after they’ve manipulated those players’ service time to gain an additional year of control.

As on-field optimization became de rigeur, baseball teams began using the same heartlessly efficient principles in other decision-making areas of their organizations. It isn’t enough to sell out a crowd, teams must maximize dollars per customer. That means ceding traditional fan seating to luxury boxes, raising ticket and concession prices, and generally just making it more difficult to attend a baseball game. This shift was aptly summed up by Robert Alvarado, the Los Angeles Angels’ then-VP of marketing and ticket sales, to Pedro Moura in this 2015 OC Register piece:

“We may not be reaching as many of the people on the lower end of the socioeconomic ladder, but those people, they may enjoy the game, but they pay less, and we’re not seeing the conversion on the per-caps,” Alvarado said. “In doing so, the ticket price that we’re offering those people, it’s not like I can segregate them, because I’m offering it up to the public, and I’m basically downselling everybody else in order to accommodate them.”

How one perceives that statement depends a lot on their views of why a business, and why a baseball team, exists. If the goal is to make money, then optimizing “per-cap” conversions is a reasonable place to start (even if one could also argue quite convincingly that it’s short-sighted). If one happens to think a baseball team exists to serve its community, as a municipal staple and entertainment option, then the statement is outrageous. Choosing empty seats — to intentionally not serve a significant portion of the fan base, to ensure upper-class patrons don’t see their perceived value impacted — is blasphemy.

Owning a sports franchise means shepherding a sacred member of the community that has existed for generations. It means benefitting from decades of handed-down fandom. To be unwilling to invest in a team should be considered sacrilege.

If, according to Aga, money alone cannot be the reason for a business to exist, then what is? There may not be one reason, exactly, but if there were, serving the community, be it locally, nationally or globally, seems as good a place to start as any. To look at the people and environments that compose those communities and think first of them, to think of returns on objectives rather than returns on investments. The rules of the game work a lot better when they’re geared towards the consumers they purport to serve rather than the bottom line.

Somewhere along the way, a bunch of people decided prioritizing shareholders above success and fan experience was just the way things ought to be. That making an extra buck at everyone else’s expense was the cost of doing business. That because a company or a corporation was incentivized to do something — or more accurately, was not incentivized not to do something — they bore no responsibility for their actions. None of this holds objective truth. We have agency and responsibility that extends beyond our incentives, or else they would be called mandates. We can hold people responsible for the communities they leave in ruins in the reckless pursuit of the bottom line. We can choose differently.

For sports franchises, that entails a commitment to winning more than efficiency. No matter what people implore you to believe, sports franchises aren’t like other businesses. They inspire fierce allegiance like few brands can, sworn lifelong fealty merely by virtue of being born in their general vicinity. They trade in cultural value, and thus have an obligation to provide for that culture.

Other brands sometimes create those loyalties, sure, but that’s often thanks to a period of time when the product was best in class, before marketing took over. When it comes to other businesses we tend to, eventually, update our priors based on quality, price, convenience or some other service standard. Yet, when’s the last time someone changed their favorite baseball team due to ticket prices? They might show up less often, but their allegiances — who they root for — tend to be entrenched. This means the only way for a team to adequately serve its “customers” is through good-faith competition. Rebuilds are acceptable when they’re not also (read: actually) an effort to line ownership’s pockets, and they’re even more acceptable when the team later spends to win.

That puts sports teams in a unique relationship with their customers. They are highly incentivized to do right by their fans, and yet they can also easily abuse that relationship if they want. Essentially, they are free to choose either Friedman’s or Aga’s view of capitalism.

Sports franchises are an obvious, and potentially powerful, tool to build community, and yet so often, and seemingly increasingly, they take the path of least resistance. My argument, my plea, extends to businesses of all stripes: Focus first on serving your customers and employees, and allow profit to serve as a guideline within that endeavor. Justify your existence. If as a company you’re already profitable, but can further increase profits by slashing essential services or making them worse, do you do it? A commitment to profit maximization provides an easy answer. But so does a commitment to your community.

Sadly, this time of global crisis has dampened hope that teams can put others first. We’ve seen athletes come to the fore, offering to cover the salaries of stadium workers who are suffering in the absence of sports, and deepen their bonds to the people and places they represent. And while many organizations have pledged to do the same, too often they’ve led from behind, waiting until they’ve been shamed to support employees rather than lay them off.

Rarely have corporations been forced to so distinctly choose between rededicating themselves to communities or continuing to plunder as they see fit. The pandemic gave baseball a test in this regard. They’ve clearly flunked it.

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if you're doing arcs for tlcstuck DVD commentary, maybe john's? but if you don't have a lot to say on his, kanaya?

Sure, I can talk about John! If you don’t mind, I’m going to sit on the Kanaya request - we have several upcoming Kanaya updates that are relevant, and I’d rather not go through a whole arc review without those to draw on. (I still need to code the darn things too.)

As per usual, this initial post will talk about John’s situation at the start of TLC and our goals for his progression throughout the story. Future posts will skim quickly over relevant scenes with the occasional foray into specifics as I see fit and/or have a funny story to share.

While Jade intentionally conceals aspects of her personality or emotions she thinks are “bad”, John seems to unconsciously repress a lot of negative emotion. Also, despite being named the group’s leader, he takes a lot of orders in their first session. His tirade about Con Air and criticism of how John Cusack doesn’t do anything useful except “operate some heavy machinery at the end” (aka initiate the Scratch) is thinly veiled self-loathing. His issues with being pushed around only increase when he sticks his hand into the juju and gets sent spiraling out of control through the story. So, a big goal of TLC was to give John a sense of control and agency over his own experience. We also wanted to have him take a look at his own repressed emotions and begin to deal with them.

Another thing I’d like to bring up is John’s tendency to filter stuff through media. Part of that is connected to his repression. He’s shown playing games or watching movies in both battleship intermissions, because it’s a good distraction from their situation. As I mentioned already, he vents some of his frustrations by ragging on John Cusack. In an earlier intermission, when he’s not quite ready to openly admit to his feud with Davesprite, he expresses it through the game by insisting that Jade shouldn’t talk to him because he is “the enemy”. In fact, a lot of that Ghostbusters MMORPG scene is John attempting to re-establish himself as a “leader” in a game that doesn’t really need that role, because it’s a safer environment to try to do so. Once John sticks his hand in the juju, he’s given authorial control over the story and how it goes. Since he zaps into the whitespace a few times, he might even be vaguely aware of his existence as a character in a narrative (something usually Time players are most cognizant of). John’s primed to use his vision of his life as a story in some interesting ways, and we do get into that, especially with the narrative prompt sequence. But we have to get there first.

Since that’s pretty short, I’m going to blow through A6A6I4 in this same post. I already went through this with a previous ask but I’ll touch on some details of John’s arc specifically.

ROXY: nix made it sound like u always have to pay some kind of priceJOHN: typheus said the same thing.JOHN: he insisted on being cagey about it, but it sounded like i may have compromised my existence in some mysterious but significant way.

This will get revisited when we get to the walkaround (if I lay down foreshadowing I will pick it back up again, who do you think I am) but it’s mostly a joke. By making the decision to change what he did, John is no longer canonical, which sure compromises his existence. However, going by his situation in the Credits, it’s probably for the best.

Instead of being told what to do by Terezi, John gets to decide how to use his new powers to help fix the timeline, giving him more ownership over both his powers and their success. Then he bangs right into Davesprite, who is not thrilled that there are now more idiots with time powers on the loose.

I think John’s hangup with Davesprite comes from several sources. We saw early on with his freakout over his dad’s room that he comes up with ideas of how people should be, and when those ideas don’t match reality, he’s not happy about it. Dave was never going to be the same irl as online, and Davesprite’s additional heaping of trauma didn’t help. Also, John resents his failings as a leader in the first session, and taking Terezi’s advice and getting himself killed was a big one. He doesn’t know the details of what really went down (that the timeline was already doomed, and it’s implied doomed John sacrificed himself on Typheus’ advice) but what he knows is that he fucked up and got himself and Jade killed, and Davesprite is an inconvenient lingering reminder of a mistake he’d rather write off as something that didn’t really happen.

Now, face to face with the walking reminder of his biggest error, John tries to reassert control. Earlier, he complains that Davesprite tries to take credit for his existence all the time (again making John feel guilty, even if it’s Davesprite trying to scrabble for some sort of continued relevance) and John turns the tables by repeatedly announcing that he’s responsible for their survival, betraying similar insecurities. He also for the first time directly says he’s upset about the way he’s been pushed around instead of being allowed to lead.

JOHN: everyone’s always telling me how to act.JOHN: no one thinks i can handle things on my own.JOHN: i’m the doofus sidekick who makes mistakes and gets in the way so the REAL hero can save the day.JOHN: but i brought back an entire session, and i don’t think that’s only a punch line.

For John, even admitting something is progress.

Ironically, although John will not verbally acknowledge this until their walkaround log (gotta learn the whole self-awareness thing) they’re now in a similar situation, turning back time after their session fell apart.

John brings everyone back to Roxy, where he quickly gives her a complex. John’s attempts to write off everyone from doomed timelines as not real goes back to his repression. He doesn’t want to think about those events or dead friends. He’d rather push it all away, because it’s not real. It doesn’t matter. He’s surprised earlier that Roxy wanted to remember, and now he’s surprised when she suggests reminding everyone else. However, Roxy points out that sometimes remembering bad stuff is important for learning and moving forward, and so he reluctantly agrees.

The conversation with Rose is more important for her arc, but John then has a silly idea and ends up accidentally freeing Jane. Sometimes being silly and impulsive can work out. Soon after, he runs into Jane’s dad, gets upset, and immediately stomps that emotion down… only to run straight into Rose freaking out about doomed Roxy’s death. It’s dead parent flashback central in this castle tonight. Good job specifically mentioning that incident beforehand, John. You jinxed yourself. Earlier, John tries to cover when Rose gets confused about Jane saying Roxy is in jail. He knows what has to happen and agreed to try to conceal it from Rose on Roxy’s request - again, he’d rather think of that set of people as “not real” and figures it’s better for everyone to simply not know. Instead, that leaves Rose unprepared for the shock and makes her even madder when she finds out what’s going on. Consequences, John.

And that brings us up through I4! Good place to stop.

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9 Healthcare Companies Who Changed the 2010s

By ANDY MYCHKOVSKY

In order to celebrate the next decade (although the internet is confused whether its actually the end of the decade…), we’re taking a step back and listing our picks for the 9 most influential healthcare companies of the 2010s. If your company is left off, there’s always next decade… But honestly, we tried our best to compile a unique listing that spanned the gamut of redefining healthcare for a variety of good and bad reasons. Bon appétit!

1. Epic Systems Corporation

The center of the U.S. electronic medical record (EMR) universe resides in Verona, Wisconsin. Population of 13,166. The privately held company created by Judith “Judy” Faulkner in 1979 holds 28% of the 5,447 total hospital market in America. Drill down into hospitals with over 500-beds and Epic reigns supreme with 58% share. Thanks to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and movement away from paper records (Meaningful Use), Epic has amassed annualized revenue of $2.7 billion. That was enough to hire the architects of Disneyland to design their Google-like Midwestern campus. The other amazing fact is that Epic has grown an average of 14% per year, despite never raising venture capital or using M&A to acquire smaller companies.

Over the years, Epic has been criticized for being expensive, non-interoperable with other EMR vendors, and the partial cause for physician burnout. Expensive is probably an understatement. For example, Partners HealthCare (to be renamed Mass General Brigham) alone spent $1.2 billion to install Epic, which included hiring 600 employees and consultants just to build and implement the system and onboard staff. With many across healthcare calling for medical record portability that actually works (unlike health information exchanges), you best believe America’s 3rd richest woman will have ideas how the country moves forward with digital medical records.

My very first interview out of undergrad was for a position at Epic. I chose a different path, but have always respected and followed the growth of the company over the past decade. In a world where medical data seems like tomorrow’s oil, a number of articles have speculated whether Apple or Alphabet would ever acquire Epic? I don’t buy it. I’m thinking it’s much more likely that 2020 is the first year they acquire a company. How you doing Athenahealth?

2. Theranos

No one can argue Theranos didn’t change the game in healthcare forever… for the worse. I do my best to give all healthcare founders the benefit of a doubt, but Elizabeth Holmes and Ramesh Balwani make that nearly impossible. Turns out that an all-star cast of geopolitical juggernauts on your Board of Directors and the black turtleneck of Steve Jobs is not the recipe for success. Founded by 19-year Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos raised over $700 million at a peak valuation of $9 billion. In retrospect, they have become the poster-child for Silicon Valley’s over-promise and under-deliver mantra. The only problem is that instead of food delivery, their failures resulted in invalid blood testing that could’ve really hurt people.

Despite this failure, the mission and purpose would’ve been tremendously impressive. Cheaper blood tests that require only 1/100 to 1/1,000 the amount of blood that LabCorp or Quest Diagnostics needed. I think the craziest part of the whole saga was that seemingly sophisticated healthcare leaders thirsted for the new technology to beat competitors and improve patient convenience. Before the technology was proved defunct, Theranos convinced Safeway to invest $350 million to retrofit 800 locations with clinics that would offer in-store blood tests. Theranos convinced Walgreens to invest $140 million to develop a partnership that would help beat CVS. Theranos partnered with Cleveland Clinic to test its technology and was working with AmeriHealth Caritas and Capital BlueCross to become their preferred lab provider.

To be clear, they weren’t the first, and won’t be the last healthcare company to fail. I only hope that this extremely well documented (thanks Hollywood) experience has re-focused founders and investors towards building sustainable growth companies that actually help patients live higher quality lives, not just make people money as quickly as possible.

3. One Medical

Thanks to Tom Lee and the One Medical crew, primary care is now investable. Whether you’re talking about private equity or venture capitalists, many have dived head first into the space in search of value-based care treasure. One Medical is the most well-known tech-enabled primary care practice, with 72 clinic locations across seven states, and new locations opening in Portland, Orange County, and Atlanta. The Carlyle Group liked the company so much that it invested $350 million in August 2018, at a reported $1.5 billion valuation. This has led to a number of primary care focused companies (ChenMed, Iora Health, Forward) to amass significant valuations that historically would’ve seemed optimistic. However, the elevation of the primary care provider from the “punter” to the “quarterback” of a patient’s medical journey has lifted all boats.

Interestingly, One Medical has unique differentiators over the traditional primary care competitors. For example, One Medical limits doctors to seeing 16 patients a day, versus the average physician seeing 20-30 patients a day. One Medical also built its own medical records in hopes of a more user friendly experience, instead of outsourcing to practice-based EMRs. One Medical charges $199 annually to each patient to help make up for lower volume, and in return provides same-day appointments, onsite lab draws, and a slick app that allows online appointment scheduling and telehealth consults with providers 24/7. They are also adding capabilities and services to cover mental health and pediatric services to increase revenue.

This change is remarkable. Historically, primary care has been a low-margin business with high administrative and staffing costs, along with physician burnout and regulatory burden. One Medical pioneered the concept of a more modern primary care experience, and I am looking forward to their initial public offering (IPO) targeted for early 2020 and whatever Tom Lee is cooking up at Galileo.

4. Centene

Centene is my favorite health plan to study over the past decade. You would never know that the second largest publicly-traded company headquartered in Missouri was originally started by Elizabeth “Betty” Brinn in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Under-hyped, which is rare in healthcare nowadays, Centene has quietly grown to become the largest player in both the Medicaid managed care and Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchanges. Under Michael Neidorff’s leadership, Centene now serves 32 states with over 15 million lives and 53,600 employees. They were most recently ranked #51 on the Fortune 500 list. In addition, they are about to grow with the $17.3 billion acquisition of WellCare. Here’s a brief rundown of some major events that demonstrate why I’m so bullish on Centene dominating another decade:

April 2018: WellCare and Centene awarded Medicaid managed care contracts in Florida.

July 2018: Centene acquires Fidelis Care and their 1.6 million New Yorkers for $3.75 billion. This single-handedly gives Centene the leading Medicaid share in the state.

September 2018: WellCare acquires Meridian Health Plan and their 1.1 million lives in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, for $2.5 billion.

February 2019: Centene and WellCare awarded Medicaid managed care contracts in North Carolina.

December 2019: WellCare awarded Medicaid managed care contract in WellCare (re-procurement underway)

In addition, Texas Medicaid is set to award their STAR contracts for 3.4 million lives between Medicaid and CHIP, of which Centene already won a contract to serve the STAR+PLUS (aged, blind, and disabled population). Seems like a pretty solid guess that Centene will fair pretty well in the STAR RFP rankings. Next decade, I look for Centene to significantly increase their efforts to recruit Medicare Advantage (MA) lives, and I wouldn’t bet against them.

5. Mylan

One word. EpiPen. Mylan, the $10 billion market cap pharmaceutical manufacturer and producer of the epinephrine auto-injector product, EpiPen, became the lightning rod in a consumer and political drug pricing debate in 2016. For those who were living under a rock, here’s the quick recap. Epinephrine auto-injectors are used to treat anaphylaxis (severe allergic reaction). Prior to 2016, Mylan held absolute dominant share of the auto-injector market, hovering around 90% for the first half of the 2010s. The only real competitor was Adrenaclick, produced by Lineage Therapeutics, but they were barely considered a competitor despite having cheaper prices. In 2016, news outlets caught wind of Mylan’s 500% list price increase over a decade ($100 to $600) and a nationwide discussion about drug prices began.

If you asked the Mylan CEO, Heather Bresch, she would tell you that the reason brand EpiPen’s list price increased 500 percent over 7 years is because they invested billions of dollars to significantly increase access in schools and employers across America. These efforts increased the number of EpiPen prescriptions in the U.S. from 2.5 million to more than 3.5 million between 2011 and 2015. She would also tell you that there is a big difference between wholesale acquisition cost price (list price) and net price. This part is often misunderstood by media. The net price takes into account discounts, prescription savings cards, and rebates that Mylan provides to purchasers (PBMs, Employers, Plans). The exact negotiated rebate or discount is different by line of business and organization. However, safe to say that Mylan made a good amount of profit with increasing volume.

At the end of the day, Mylan settled with the U.S. Justice Department for $465 million over claims it overcharged the government. Mylan kept their $600 list price brand EpiPen product with rebates, and added a generic version of EpiPen for $300 list price without rebates and requiring commercial insurance. According to a GoodRx analysis in 2018, the epinephrine auto-injector market now looks much different, with 60% of the market moving to the generic version of EpiPen, 10% of the market remaining with brand EpiPen, and 30% of the market switching to the generic version of Adrenaclick. However, whether generic or brand EpiPen, Mylan makes strong profits and American will continue to discuss the best strategy forward to control drug spend.

6. Evolent Health

First let me caveat. I’ve worked for Evolent Health for the past 5 years and seen it grow from a Series B startup to a publicly-traded company (NSYE: EVH). However, the reason they’re on this list is because Evolent Health has forever changed the game for future value-based care startups. When Frank Williams, Seth Blackley, and Tom Peterson founded the company in 2011 with the help of UPMC Health Plan and The Advisory Board Company, concepts like the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) did not even exist. Fast forward a decade later, and Evolent Health now serves approximately 3.7 million lives across 35 different U.S. healthcare markets. The mission of Evolent Health is to, “Change the health of a nation, by changing the way healthcare is delivered.” To do this, you need both the technology, clinical, financial, and operational capacity to empower providers to confidently move away from fee-for-service towards fee-for-value.

With the implementation of MACRA and the continued perseverance of CMS under this new administration, value-based care is still full steam ahead (good luck incoming CMMI Director, Brad Smith). Despite the naysayers of value-based care, find me a better way to control medical inflation that is accepted by nearly all healthcare institutions and doesn’t negatively impact patient outcomes, and we can talk. I will mention the importance of “significant” downside risk to actually change provider culture, strategy, and operations. I don’t want the primary purpose of setting up a clinically integrated network (CIN) to be negotiating higher fee-for-service commercial rates for independent physicians aligned to tertiatiary academic medical centers.

I wholeheartedly believe that providers will continue to seek partner options (not vendors with high fees independent of performance) who are not wholly-owned by the large for-profit health plans (Optum…). Of all the available options, Evolent Health is the market leader across a variety of areas. In 2020, I look forward to watching how the 3,000+ Evolenteers push the boundaries of downside risk value-based care with both payers and providers.

7. Livongo

To me, Livongo represents Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones. Not the blood-thirsty character towards the end, but the only person to bring back dragons to the world of Westeros. Except in this example, the dragon is a successful digital health IPO. This was a big deal. Going public rewarded early investors who believed in the nascent digital health and chronic condition space. It allowed public investors an opportunity to peak under the hood of the financials and get comfortable with future economics of the industry. And it provided a legitimacy and a peer valuation to other leading digital health companies like Omada Health. All-in-all, 207,000 members use Livongo for Diabetes management solutions, including a connected glucose monitor, unlimited test strips, and personalized health coaching. This number is expected to grow significantly, with the announcement of a new, two-year diabetes contract with the BlueCross BlueShield Federal Employee Program (FEP). They anticipate the partnership will add an additional $50-60 million in revenue across 2020 and 2021

Livongo has done a brilliant job marketing itself as building a full-stop solution for the 147 million Americans with a chronic condition. According to their estimates, their immediately addressable markets for managing diabetes and hypertension represents a $46.7 billion opportunity. Digging into the unit economics, Livongo estimates that diabetes is worth $900 per patient per year and $468 per patient per year. Since they’re focused on chronic conditions, the business model is subscription-based. In the Q3 quarterly report, Livongo provided full year guidance of $168.5 million on the low end and $169 million on the high end. In either scenario, FY2019 Adjusted EBITDA is projected to lose around $26 million for the year.

Livongo has smartly started with addressing diabetes, given the downstream health impacts of mismanagement of blood sugar and the ability to impact spend with regular insulin, diet, and exercise. They also are very smart to efficiently sell into self-funded large employers using existing channel partners like Express Scripts, CVS, Health Care Services Corporation (HCSC), Anthem, and Highmark BCBS. I know that the stock is down 35% since IPO, but I fundamentally believe chronic conditions are not going away and over time, Livongo will add supplementary clinical programs to expand revenue growth.

8. Optum

UnitedHealth Group is the single largest healthcare company in the world with a $280 billion market cap. It owns UnitedHealthcare, the country’s largest private insurer serving Medicare Advantage, managed Medicaid, employer-sponsored insurance, and ACA exchanges. And yet in 2020, more than 50% of the company’s earning and $112 billion in revenue will come from the lesser known side of the business, Optum. It is difficult to describe Optum because they do so much, but they technically split their business into three units: OptumHealth, OptumInsight and Optum Rx. OptumHealth provides care delivery (primary, specialty, urgent care) and care management to address chronic, complex, and behavioral health needs. OptumInsight utilizes data, analytics, and clinical information to support software, consulting, and managed services programs. OptumRx is a pharmacy benefit management (PBM) to create a more streamlined pharmacy system. In total Optum estimates the U.S. addressable market for its services to exceed $850 billion. If that wasn’t enough, here’s some fun facts why they made the list:

Works with 9 out of 10 U.S. hospitals, more than 67,000 pharmacies, and more than 100,000 physicians, practices, and other providers.

Added 10,000 physicians in the past year, growing its network to 46,000 physicians.

Includes 180,000 team members and serves 120 million customers.

Serves 80% of health plans to reduce total cost of care.

Works with 9 out of 10 Fortune 100 companies.

Pretty remarkable for a business unit that was only technically created in 2011, by merging existing pharmacy and care deliver services into one brand. As chronic disease increases and value-based care is here to stay, Optum is focused on comprehensively treating patients and coordinating their care to improve quality and lower costs. With UnitedHealthcare under the corporate umbrella, Optum has the adequate scale to test any new clinical initiatives before rolling out to other health plans.

9. Purdue Pharma

Purdue Pharma is a privately owned drug company owned by the Sackler Family and most well known for creating OxyContin in 1996. OxyContin represents 90% of Purdue Pharma’s revenue and was aggressively marketed to doctors for use in patients with chronic pain. According to court records, Purdue Pharma has grossed an estimated $35 billion. This is the same prescription painkiller that many experts say fueled the U.S. opioid crisis that has resulted in more than 130 deaths each day after overdosing on opioids. To be clear, the deaths are caused by prescription pain relievers, heroin, and synthetic opioids (fentanyl), however, the initial addiction to opioids is often caused by OxyContin and other prescription drugs. All but two U.S. states and 2,000 local governments have taken legal action against Purdue, other drug makers and distributors.

The Sackler family is the 19th richest family and is well known for supporting the fine arts, including the Sackler Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City where the Ancient Egyptian Temple of Dendur sits. I’ve seen a number of articles persecuting the entire Sackler family, but I want to be a little more nuanced. In 1952, three Sackler brothers (Arthur, Raymond, and Mortimer) bought a drug company called Purdue Frederick. Arthur’s branch of the family got out of the company after his death in 1987. The Raymond and Mortimer branches of Sacklers, who own it, founded affiliate Purdue Pharma in the early 1990s. According to a 2017 article from The New Yorker, there are 15 Sackler children in the generation following the founders of Purdue. Some family members have served on the Board of Directors, while others (most notably descendants from Arthur Sackler who died before OxyContin was invented), have distanced themselves from the company and condemned the OxyContin-based wealth.

Purdue Pharma filed for bankruptcy in September 2019 as part of a tentative settlement related to misleading marketing of the controversial painkiller. The settlement requires the owners of Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family to pay out $3 billion of their own fortune in cash over the next seven years. The only problem is that some family members have reportedly moved $10.7 billion from Purdue Pharma to trusts and holding companies across the world between 2008 and 2017. And all we’re left with is a complicated web of holding companies and offshore bank accounts, ravaged communities, and the leading cause of injury-related death in the U.S.

Andy Mychkovsky is a Director at Evolent Health and the Founder of a healthcare startup and innovation blog, Healthcare Pizza. This post originally appeared on Healthcare Pizza here.

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9 Healthcare Companies Who Changed the 2010s

By ANDY MYCHKOVSKY

In order to celebrate the next decade (although the internet is confused whether its actually the end of the decade…), we’re taking a step back and listing our picks for the 9 most influential healthcare companies of the 2010s. If your company is left off, there’s always next decade… But honestly, we tried our best to compile a unique listing that spanned the gamut of redefining healthcare for a variety of good and bad reasons. Bon appétit!

1. Epic Systems Corporation

The center of the U.S. electronic medical record (EMR) universe resides in Verona, Wisconsin. Population of 13,166. The privately held company created by Judith “Judy” Faulkner in 1979 holds 28% of the 5,447 total hospital market in America. Drill down into hospitals with over 500-beds and Epic reigns supreme with 58% share. Thanks to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and movement away from paper records (Meaningful Use), Epic has amassed annualized revenue of $2.7 billion. That was enough to hire the architects of Disneyland to design their Google-like Midwestern campus. The other amazing fact is that Epic has grown an average of 14% per year, despite never raising venture capital or using M&A to acquire smaller companies.

Over the years, Epic has been criticized for being expensive, non-interoperable with other EMR vendors, and the partial cause for physician burnout. Expensive is probably an understatement. For example, Partners HealthCare (to be renamed Mass General Brigham) alone spent $1.2 billion to install Epic, which included hiring 600 employees and consultants just to build and implement the system and onboard staff. With many across healthcare calling for medical record portability that actually works (unlike health information exchanges), you best believe America’s 3rd richest woman will have ideas how the country moves forward with digital medical records.

My very first interview out of undergrad was for a position at Epic. I chose a different path, but have always respected and followed the growth of the company over the past decade. In a world where medical data seems like tomorrow’s oil, a number of articles have speculated whether Apple or Alphabet would ever acquire Epic? I don’t buy it. I’m thinking it’s much more likely that 2020 is the first year they acquire a company. How you doing Athenahealth?

2. Theranos

No one can argue Theranos didn’t change the game in healthcare forever… for the worse. I do my best to give all healthcare founders the benefit of a doubt, but Elizabeth Holmes and Ramesh Balwani make that nearly impossible. Turns out that an all-star cast of geopolitical juggernauts on your Board of Directors and the black turtleneck of Steve Jobs is not the recipe for success. Founded by 19-year Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos raised over $700 million at a peak valuation of $9 billion. In retrospect, they have become the poster-child for Silicon Valley’s over-promise and under-deliver mantra. The only problem is that instead of food delivery, their failures resulted in invalid blood testing that could’ve really hurt people.

Despite this failure, the mission and purpose would’ve been tremendously impressive. Cheaper blood tests that require only 1/100 to 1/1,000 the amount of blood that LabCorp or Quest Diagnostics needed. I think the craziest part of the whole saga was that seemingly sophisticated healthcare leaders thirsted for the new technology to beat competitors and improve patient convenience. Before the technology was proved defunct, Theranos convinced Safeway to invest $350 million to retrofit 800 locations with clinics that would offer in-store blood tests. Theranos convinced Walgreens to invest $140 million to develop a partnership that would help beat CVS. Theranos partnered with Cleveland Clinic to test its technology and was working with AmeriHealth Caritas and Capital BlueCross to become their preferred lab provider.

To be clear, they weren’t the first, and won’t be the last healthcare company to fail. I only hope that this extremely well documented (thanks Hollywood) experience has re-focused founders and investors towards building sustainable growth companies that actually help patients live higher quality lives, not just make people money as quickly as possible.

3. One Medical

Thanks to Tom Lee and the One Medical crew, primary care is now investable. Whether you’re talking about private equity or venture capitalists, many have dived head first into the space in search of value-based care treasure. One Medical is the most well-known tech-enabled primary care practice, with 72 clinic locations across seven states, and new locations opening in Portland, Orange County, and Atlanta. The Carlyle Group liked the company so much that it invested $350 million in August 2018, at a reported $1.5 billion valuation. This has led to a number of primary care focused companies (ChenMed, Iora Health, Forward) to amass significant valuations that historically would’ve seemed optimistic. However, the elevation of the primary care provider from the “punter” to the “quarterback” of a patient’s medical journey has lifted all boats.

Interestingly, One Medical has unique differentiators over the traditional primary care competitors. For example, One Medical limits doctors to seeing 16 patients a day, versus the average physician seeing 20-30 patients a day. One Medical also built its own medical records in hopes of a more user friendly experience, instead of outsourcing to practice-based EMRs. One Medical charges $199 annually to each patient to help make up for lower volume, and in return provides same-day appointments, onsite lab draws, and a slick app that allows online appointment scheduling and telehealth consults with providers 24/7. They are also adding capabilities and services to cover mental health and pediatric services to increase revenue.

This change is remarkable. Historically, primary care has been a low-margin business with high administrative and staffing costs, along with physician burnout and regulatory burden. One Medical pioneered the concept of a more modern primary care experience, and I am looking forward to their initial public offering (IPO) targeted for early 2020 and whatever Tom Lee is cooking up at Galileo.

4. Centene

Centene is my favorite health plan to study over the past decade. You would never know that the second largest publicly-traded company headquartered in Missouri was originally started by Elizabeth “Betty” Brinn in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Under-hyped, which is rare in healthcare nowadays, Centene has quietly grown to become the largest player in both the Medicaid managed care and Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchanges. Under Michael Neidorff’s leadership, Centene now serves 32 states with over 15 million lives and 53,600 employees. They were most recently ranked #51 on the Fortune 500 list. In addition, they are about to grow with the $17.3 billion acquisition of WellCare. Here’s a brief rundown of some major events that demonstrate why I’m so bullish on Centene dominating another decade:

April 2018: WellCare and Centene awarded Medicaid managed care contracts in Florida.

July 2018: Centene acquires Fidelis Care and their 1.6 million New Yorkers for $3.75 billion. This single-handedly gives Centene the leading Medicaid share in the state.

September 2018: WellCare acquires Meridian Health Plan and their 1.1 million lives in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, for $2.5 billion.

February 2019: Centene and WellCare awarded Medicaid managed care contracts in North Carolina.

December 2019: WellCare awarded Medicaid managed care contract in WellCare (re-procurement underway)

In addition, Texas Medicaid is set to award their STAR contracts for 3.4 million lives between Medicaid and CHIP, of which Centene already won a contract to serve the STAR+PLUS (aged, blind, and disabled population). Seems like a pretty solid guess that Centene will fair pretty well in the STAR RFP rankings. Next decade, I look for Centene to significantly increase their efforts to recruit Medicare Advantage (MA) lives, and I wouldn’t bet against them.

5. Mylan

One word. EpiPen. Mylan, the $10 billion market cap pharmaceutical manufacturer and producer of the epinephrine auto-injector product, EpiPen, became the lightning rod in a consumer and political drug pricing debate in 2016. For those who were living under a rock, here’s the quick recap. Epinephrine auto-injectors are used to treat anaphylaxis (severe allergic reaction). Prior to 2016, Mylan held absolute dominant share of the auto-injector market, hovering around 90% for the first half of the 2010s. The only real competitor was Adrenaclick, produced by Lineage Therapeutics, but they were barely considered a competitor despite having cheaper prices. In 2016, news outlets caught wind of Mylan’s 500% list price increase over a decade ($100 to $600) and a nationwide discussion about drug prices began.

If you asked the Mylan CEO, Heather Bresch, she would tell you that the reason brand EpiPen’s list price increased 500 percent over 7 years is because they invested billions of dollars to significantly increase access in schools and employers across America. These efforts increased the number of EpiPen prescriptions in the U.S. from 2.5 million to more than 3.5 million between 2011 and 2015. She would also tell you that there is a big difference between wholesale acquisition cost price (list price) and net price. This part is often misunderstood by media. The net price takes into account discounts, prescription savings cards, and rebates that Mylan provides to purchasers (PBMs, Employers, Plans). The exact negotiated rebate or discount is different by line of business and organization. However, safe to say that Mylan made a good amount of profit with increasing volume.

At the end of the day, Mylan settled with the U.S. Justice Department for $465 million over claims it overcharged the government. Mylan kept their $600 list price brand EpiPen product with rebates, and added a generic version of EpiPen for $300 list price without rebates and requiring commercial insurance. According to a GoodRx analysis in 2018, the epinephrine auto-injector market now looks much different, with 60% of the market moving to the generic version of EpiPen, 10% of the market remaining with brand EpiPen, and 30% of the market switching to the generic version of Adrenaclick. However, whether generic or brand EpiPen, Mylan makes strong profits and American will continue to discuss the best strategy forward to control drug spend.

6. Evolent Health

First let me caveat. I’ve worked for Evolent Health for the past 5 years and seen it grow from a Series B startup to a publicly-traded company (NSYE: EVH). However, the reason they’re on this list is because Evolent Health has forever changed the game for future value-based care startups. When Frank Williams, Seth Blackley, and Tom Peterson founded the company in 2011 with the help of UPMC Health Plan and The Advisory Board Company, concepts like the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) did not even exist. Fast forward a decade later, and Evolent Health now serves approximately 3.7 million lives across 35 different U.S. healthcare markets. The mission of Evolent Health is to, “Change the health of a nation, by changing the way healthcare is delivered.” To do this, you need both the technology, clinical, financial, and operational capacity to empower providers to confidently move away from fee-for-service towards fee-for-value.

With the implementation of MACRA and the continued perseverance of CMS under this new administration, value-based care is still full steam ahead (good luck incoming CMMI Director, Brad Smith). Despite the naysayers of value-based care, find me a better way to control medical inflation that is accepted by nearly all healthcare institutions and doesn’t negatively impact patient outcomes, and we can talk. I will mention the importance of “significant” downside risk to actually change provider culture, strategy, and operations. I don’t want the primary purpose of setting up a clinically integrated network (CIN) to be negotiating higher fee-for-service commercial rates for independent physicians aligned to tertiatiary academic medical centers.

I wholeheartedly believe that providers will continue to seek partner options (not vendors with high fees independent of performance) who are not wholly-owned by the large for-profit health plans (Optum…). Of all the available options, Evolent Health is the market leader across a variety of areas. In 2020, I look forward to watching how the 3,000+ Evolenteers push the boundaries of downside risk value-based care with both payers and providers.

7. Livongo

To me, Livongo represents Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones. Not the blood-thirsty character towards the end, but the only person to bring back dragons to the world of Westeros. Except in this example, the dragon is a successful digital health IPO. This was a big deal. Going public rewarded early investors who believed in the nascent digital health and chronic condition space. It allowed public investors an opportunity to peak under the hood of the financials and get comfortable with future economics of the industry. And it provided a legitimacy and a peer valuation to other leading digital health companies like Omada Health. All-in-all, 207,000 members use Livongo for Diabetes management solutions, including a connected glucose monitor, unlimited test strips, and personalized health coaching. This number is expected to grow significantly, with the announcement of a new, two-year diabetes contract with the BlueCross BlueShield Federal Employee Program (FEP). They anticipate the partnership will add an additional $50-60 million in revenue across 2020 and 2021

Livongo has done a brilliant job marketing itself as building a full-stop solution for the 147 million Americans with a chronic condition. According to their estimates, their immediately addressable markets for managing diabetes and hypertension represents a $46.7 billion opportunity. Digging into the unit economics, Livongo estimates that diabetes is worth $900 per patient per year and $468 per patient per year. Since they’re focused on chronic conditions, the business model is subscription-based. In the Q3 quarterly report, Livongo provided full year guidance of $168.5 million on the low end and $169 million on the high end. In either scenario, FY2019 Adjusted EBITDA is projected to lose around $26 million for the year.

Livongo has smartly started with addressing diabetes, given the downstream health impacts of mismanagement of blood sugar and the ability to impact spend with regular insulin, diet, and exercise. They also are very smart to efficiently sell into self-funded large employers using existing channel partners like Express Scripts, CVS, Health Care Services Corporation (HCSC), Anthem, and Highmark BCBS. I know that the stock is down 35% since IPO, but I fundamentally believe chronic conditions are not going away and over time, Livongo will add supplementary clinical programs to expand revenue growth.

8. Optum

UnitedHealth Group is the single largest healthcare company in the world with a $280 billion market cap. It owns UnitedHealthcare, the country’s largest private insurer serving Medicare Advantage, managed Medicaid, employer-sponsored insurance, and ACA exchanges. And yet in 2020, more than 50% of the company’s earning and $112 billion in revenue will come from the lesser known side of the business, Optum. It is difficult to describe Optum because they do so much, but they technically split their business into three units: OptumHealth, OptumInsight and Optum Rx. OptumHealth provides care delivery (primary, specialty, urgent care) and care management to address chronic, complex, and behavioral health needs. OptumInsight utilizes data, analytics, and clinical information to support software, consulting, and managed services programs. OptumRx is a pharmacy benefit management (PBM) to create a more streamlined pharmacy system. In total Optum estimates the U.S. addressable market for its services to exceed $850 billion. If that wasn’t enough, here’s some fun facts why they made the list:

Works with 9 out of 10 U.S. hospitals, more than 67,000 pharmacies, and more than 100,000 physicians, practices, and other providers.

Added 10,000 physicians in the past year, growing its network to 46,000 physicians.

Includes 180,000 team members and serves 120 million customers.

Serves 80% of health plans to reduce total cost of care.

Works with 9 out of 10 Fortune 100 companies.

Pretty remarkable for a business unit that was only technically created in 2011, by merging existing pharmacy and care deliver services into one brand. As chronic disease increases and value-based care is here to stay, Optum is focused on comprehensively treating patients and coordinating their care to improve quality and lower costs. With UnitedHealthcare under the corporate umbrella, Optum has the adequate scale to test any new clinical initiatives before rolling out to other health plans.

9. Purdue Pharma

Purdue Pharma is a privately owned drug company owned by the Sackler Family and most well known for creating OxyContin in 1996. OxyContin represents 90% of Purdue Pharma’s revenue and was aggressively marketed to doctors for use in patients with chronic pain. According to court records, Purdue Pharma has grossed an estimated $35 billion. This is the same prescription painkiller that many experts say fueled the U.S. opioid crisis that has resulted in more than 130 deaths each day after overdosing on opioids. To be clear, the deaths are caused by prescription pain relievers, heroin, and synthetic opioids (fentanyl), however, the initial addiction to opioids is often caused by OxyContin and other prescription drugs. All but two U.S. states and 2,000 local governments have taken legal action against Purdue, other drug makers and distributors.

The Sackler family is the 19th richest family and is well known for supporting the fine arts, including the Sackler Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City where the Ancient Egyptian Temple of Dendur sits. I’ve seen a number of articles persecuting the entire Sackler family, but I want to be a little more nuanced. In 1952, three Sackler brothers (Arthur, Raymond, and Mortimer) bought a drug company called Purdue Frederick. Arthur’s branch of the family got out of the company after his death in 1987. The Raymond and Mortimer branches of Sacklers, who own it, founded affiliate Purdue Pharma in the early 1990s. According to a 2017 article from The New Yorker, there are 15 Sackler children in the generation following the founders of Purdue. Some family members have served on the Board of Directors, while others (most notably descendants from Arthur Sackler who died before OxyContin was invented), have distanced themselves from the company and condemned the OxyContin-based wealth.

Purdue Pharma filed for bankruptcy in September 2019 as part of a tentative settlement related to misleading marketing of the controversial painkiller. The settlement requires the owners of Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family to pay out $3 billion of their own fortune in cash over the next seven years. The only problem is that some family members have reportedly moved $10.7 billion from Purdue Pharma to trusts and holding companies across the world between 2008 and 2017. And all we’re left with is a complicated web of holding companies and offshore bank accounts, ravaged communities, and the leading cause of injury-related death in the U.S.

Andy Mychkovsky is a Director at Evolent Health and the Founder of a healthcare startup and innovation blog, Healthcare Pizza. This post originally appeared on Healthcare Pizza here.

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Are pilots rediscovering how to travel by light airplane?

By long standing tradition, baseball players never talk to a pitcher in the middle of a perfect game—if everything is going well, why jinx it? The same mindset applies to pilots, who are often hesitant to acknowledge good news for fear of chasing it away. I’m going to violate that unwritten rule because I think it’s worth exploring an interesting development: general aviation is doing surprisingly well during the coronavirus pandemic.

If it feels like the traffic pattern is crowded and the flight school next door is busy, you’re not alone. ForeFlight reported piston airplane flying over the July 4 weekend (as tracked by their app) was up 10% on 2019, while turboprops were up 8%. AOPA reports that, after a major decline in March and April, members’ flying hours picked up significantly in June and July. Calls about financing are up too, as some pilots have decided this is the time to buy an airplane or finish a rating. This is hardly a revolution, but some GA airports are busier than airline hubs right now.

I’ve noticed the increase in activity on some of my recent trips, from the Southeast to the Midwest. A few weeks ago, I landed at Custer County Airport in South Dakota, a beautiful but remote landing strip close to Mt. Rushmore that was buzzing with activity. As I took advantage of some cheap self-serve fuel, another pilot wandered over to chat (from a very Covid-appropriate 10 feet). He was flying home to Denver in a Cessna 172 after visiting family in the area. A scenic two-hour flight in the Skyhawk was easier than a six-hour drive and safer than flying on an airline.

Two things are worth noting here. First, a lot of the strength is in light airplanes—as the 172 pilot illustrates, this isn’t just a business jet boom for billionaires escaping the city. And secondly, a lot of the activity is because people are really going places, not just practicing landings. Both of these are encouraging developments, because I believe traveling by light airplane is one of the most rewarding things you can do in life (it is the tagline for Air Facts, after all).

Public vs. Private

Some pilots may be breaking state-mandated health rules and behaving irresponsibly, but what I’ve seen so far is the opposite—pilots are using airplanes precisely because they allow for social distancing. This is part of a larger trend, as people around the world reevaluate how they get around, comparing the tradeoffs between public and private transportation.

Customers are voting with their wallets right now and airlines aren’t winning.

Public transportation is almost universally weak right now. Uber rides have declined by 75% almost overnight, the New York City subway is unusually quiet, and TSA screenings for airline passengers are down 70% from 2019 levels (although they are up noticeably from the bottom in April). While the risk of getting sick from an commercial flight appears to be low, passengers are voting with their wallets right now and airlines aren’t winning.

Private transportation, on the other hand, has seen renewed interest. Car sales in China are up 15% over last year as more commuters decide the hassle of traffic beats the risk of a bus ride during a pandemic. In America, you can’t hardly buy a bike or an RV right now because sales are so strong. Even house prices have risen, contrary to most predictions from late March, as people invest in their quarantine locations instead of concerts and restaurant meals.

General aviation certainly falls into that private category, and has benefited from the rapidly shifting social norms. Flying club members have found new value in their 1/12th ownership in a Cherokee. Airline pilots have taken early retirement or been furloughed, and they’re getting back into general aviation airplanes either for fun or for a new career. Million-milers have started to consider private aviation instead of United. And employees working from home might have just a bit more time to pursue a new activity like learning to fly. This renewed interest in aviation is not universal and it could easily fade away, but so far it seems genuine.

You don’t know what you have until you lose it, and over the last four months many Americans have realized how much they like to travel. Sure, some business trips are a waste of time and the three-hour layover at O’Hare is nobody’s idea of fun, but travel is a defining characteristic of our country. Visiting a customer five states away or taking the kids to the beach are relatively routine experiences in the 21st century, not some exotic idea from a 1930s science fiction magazine. When that easy travel went away this spring, people noticed.

A new type of travel?

In addition to how we’re traveling, where we’re traveling has also changed. With most foreign borders closed and cruise ships parked, national parks and lake houses have become 2020’s preferred destinations. For GA pilots, these are ideal places to fly—no need for 2000-mile airplane range and passports, just a duffel bag and a quick flight. 

I did a version of this in July and was thrilled with the results. I used a piston airplane to take my kids on a quick lake vacation, and with a convenient airport near my destination I could do it in a day, eliminating the need for hotel rooms and other travel logistics. I never would have tried this in a car, and the nearest airline airport was over an hour away. We never got closer than 20 feet to another person, and enjoyed every minute of it.

Many state parks still feature convenient airports.

In many ways, we’re rediscovering some great ideas from 50 years ago (heck, even drive-in movie theaters are making a comeback). While we’re mining the past, pilots should take inspiration from this time period, general aviation’s golden age. Flip through an Air Facts or Flying magazine from the 60s and 70s and you’ll see all kinds of interesting ads, some of which seem foreign in today’s world. One promoted a golf course with an airport nearby, using the catchy headline “Drop in for tee.” Oklahoma encouraged pilots to “try a flying vacation” and see their fabulous state lodges, five of which featured lighted airstrips. The message was clear: airplanes are for going places and having fun.

Some of those state park airports may be a little run down these days, but most are still around, making regional trips in the US convenient and fun. They’re part of a network of 5,000+ public airports, one of the crown jewels in America’s transportation infrastructure. 

It’s even possible that technology might allow for more relaxed schedules and easier flight planning for some of these new travelers. Need to stay a day longer because of bad weather? Zoom and cell phones mean many people can work remotely while waiting for the storms to move out.

Piston airplanes might have a role to play in business travel as well. While the Fortune 500 companies are using their business jets, smaller companies might appreciate the privacy and flexibility of a Cirrus or a Cessna 310. If people really leave big cities like New York or San Francisco due to remote working policies (a popular prediction right now that I’m a little skeptical of), workers could find themselves living much closer to a general aviation airport than before. It’s easier to start flight training in Manhattan, Kansas, than Manhattan Island. 

Encouraging new pilots

Of course to support real growth in general aviation flying, we’ll need to train new pilots. That will take a renewed commitment to flight training. In addition to ads about fly-in destinations, those aviation magazines from 50 years ago were also packed with encouragement for new pilots. Full page Cessna ads show the simple 150 and offer $5 intro lessons. Another one offers renters a convenient new option: “Lease-a-Plane offers America a new system in General Aviation. Now you can rent a plane as easily as you rent a car.”

Magazines from the 1960s and 70s were packed with ads for fly-in destinations.

Such ideas are unlikely to come back, but newer ones offer some hope. AOPA’s recent work to grow the number of flying clubs is starting to pay off, with over 1,000 groups in their database. These offer affordable flight training programs with a social infrastructure to keep new pilots engaged, and should be the first point of contact for many new pilots. The growth of the experimental airplane community means pilots can travel in comfort without spending $500,000 for a new airplane.

Another new technology might help pilots at the very earliest stage. Microsoft’s new Flight Simulator game, out this month, represents the first totally new simulator in years and looks simply amazing. It’s attracting a lot of attention, from the general public as well as aviation enthusiasts. I know Microsoft Flight Simulator was a critical step in my path to becoming a pilot, starting in the early 90s; perhaps the latest edition will hook the next generation while they’re spending more time at home.

Perspective

Of course I don’t really want to go back in time, and nostalgia can be crippling as well as inspiring. Leisure suits and high inflation can stay in the 70s. In aviation, I’d much rather have datalink weather and WAAS approaches than Flight Watch and NDBs. Other than fuel prices (which are 30% higher today than they were in 1980, adjusted for inflation), I agree with Richard Collins’s philosophy: “may the good old days never return.”

It’s also easy to overstate general aviation’s recent strength. There is still plenty of bad news in the world, whether it’s significant Covid-19 outbreaks or massive airline layoffs. A small bump in flight activity does not signal a return to the glory days. However, we shouldn’t bury our head in the sand either. In the wake of a once-in-a-lifetime public health crisis and economic collapse, the fact that our little corner of the aviation world has survived is worth celebrating. More importantly, it’s worth building on.

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1 Page Commissions Review – What I Like & Don’t Like? A Honest Review

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1 Page Commissions Review – What? 100% Ready Made Reviews & Bonuses?

1 Page Commissions Review – 

100% Done-For-You Commissions Sites Pre-Loaded With Reviews & Bonuses!

1 Page Commissions Review – An Introduction

Have you tried and haven’t had any success yet as an affiliate?

Okay, while affiliate marketing is the fastest way to get started online, a significant number of people do it every day, ensuring that there is a massive increase in competition.

Which is why it is more difficult now than ever to take advantage of product marketing by sending traffic directly to affiliate links.

Only a few years ago, it was only appropriate to send traffic on fat commissions to affiliates.

It’s no longer like that.

Now there is a lot of effort involved, if you want to profit from partner promotions.

You would need videos, product reviews, a package of incentives and the internet to find out what is really good and what has been proven to offer affiliates great commissions.

Then you need to create review web pages that are most often built and technologically skillful after all the research is completed.

Then, for any product you support, you have to do it all over again.

It is a lot of hard labor you have still to do.

That’s why most new and part-time affiliates are struggling because they don’t have time and resources to get big commissions out of it.

That’s why 95% of the cash is invested by top affiliates, and the rest on peanuts.

But what if you can get commission ready pages right now, without waiting or work, with a click of the button?

Will it make obtaining those juicy commissions easier for you? Checkout my “1 Page Commissions Review” below

1 Page Commissions Review – An Overview

Product Name1 Page CommissionsProduct CreatorAndrew DariusLaunch Date & Time[2020-Jun-30] @ 10:00 EDTPrice$17BonusYes, Best Bonus Available!Refund Period30-DaysOfficial Sitehttps://1pagecommissions.comProduct TypeSoftwareSkillAll LevelsRecommendedHighly Recommended

What Is “1 Page Commissions”?

“1 Page Commissions“ helps you to tap into this pool of commissions without your own effort. For each product, you receive a professionally written review with advantages and drawbacks, a star rating and items to further improve your fee.

1 Page Commissions includes the 27 evergreen, top-converting, turnkey feedback platform that already cost the affiliates millions of dollars and continues to pay. Some of them provide monthly regular payments so that you can make passive recurring fees.

Each page has a demo video, stunning graphics and call-to-action buttons. In addition, premium Web hosting with cutting edge MPO proprietary technology is totally free.

The MPO tech delivery is fast, and your page is always as close as possible to the perspective from 194 locations in 90 countries worldwide .. In fact, fast pages lighting boost your commission, since it is shorter than ever in the modern world, so no one wishes to wait for slow loading pages.

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Disintegration review – a quirky but troubled sci-fi shooter • Eurogamer.net

Back at last year’s E3 – an event that now feels like a lifetime ago – I had a chat with V1 founder Marcus Lehto to pin down what Disintegration was all about. Due to the game’s dystopian sci-fi setting and Lehto’s background as the co-creator of Halo, I came away thinking Disintegration’s narrative had the potential to explore some fascinating topics, including post-humanism and the threats to our world today.

Disintegration review

Developer: V1 Interactive

Publisher: Private Division

Platform: Reviewed on PC

Availability: Out now on PC, Xbox One and PS4

In the end, Disintegration doesn’t ever delve too far into these ideas: but what I didn’t expect was a silly yet genuinely convincing shooter hidden beneath the surface.

Disintegration bills itself as a first-person shooter with real-time strategy elements, half campaign and half multiplayer, set in a future version of Earth ravaged by every bad thing under the sun. Climate change, pandemic, war – all things so alien to us here in 2020… The premise is that swathes of the Earth’s population have chosen to “integrate” in order to survive the harsh conditions: a process of transplanting someone’s brain into a robot body to preserve their consciousness. It was intended to be a temporary measure, but a nefarious group called the Rayonne decided integration was actually the future of humanity. The motives for which aren’t really established at the start of the campaign, unfortunately, but at least you can tell they’re bad guys from their glowing red eyes. As Romer Shoal – a celebrity who previously convinced people to integrate – you and your band of robot outlaws team up to take down the Rayonne using a combination of your Gravcycle (a weaponised hoverbike) and ground units, each of whom boast special abilities and can be commanded to attack specific enemies.

Here is Black Shuck, antagonist and Rayonne thug who menacingly thrusts a robot switch-blade at you when angered.

Disintegration’s story blurs into a jumble of missions, but the levels are such a romp that I didn’t really care about the narrative reasons for being there – I just knew I was having a good time. Each one introduces new challenges, with varying team compositions, Gravcycle weapons and enemy types which force you to reconsider and evolve your tactics. Thanks to the hybrid nature of the combat, you can opt to just shoot your way out of trouble, but the secret to success is managing battles through the RTS mechanics. It’s about knowing your enemies, and which ones to prioritise. I soon discovered aerial units and snipers could easily destroy my Gravcyle, which was also hard to heal and would instantly fail the mission if blown up. I started commanding my troops to prioritise those units first, and later learned how to manipulate the Gravcycle’s mobility to swoop behind cover. It’s easy to be overwhelmed during the chaos of these battles, and sometimes the best approach is to methodically pick off enemies while keeping your Gravcycle distant, rather than flying in guns blazing. As I learned to my peril.

The enemy AI is surprisingly responsive, with enemies ducking and rolling behind cover when shot. The player’s own units, however, can sometimes be a little slow to react when directed to certain areas. Yes, that is an enemy there, you can shoot them.

Some of the main tools in your arsenal are unit abilities, and these are deeply satisfying when used to good effect: landing a mortar barrage on a bunched-up group of enemies results in a satisfying crunch of robot bodies, while a time-slowing dome creates a shimmering Matrix moment amidst the disorder. Adding to the chaos is the destructibility of the surroundings, which shatter and explode across the screen. It’s not just about cool explosions, however, as destroying enemy cover will make it far easier for your team to get a clean shot.

In classic video game form, someone’s left dozens of hazardous exploding oil barrels around the place. Who keeps doing this?

The level design in Disintegration’s campaign forces significant changes in gameplay style more broadly, some areas requiring the player to ferret enemies out of hollow brutalist buildings, others providing life-saving refuge in the midst of a heavy aerial battles. One tense rescue mission requires precision flying and sneaking around in tight spaces – without backup from your team – armed only with sticky grenades. Another sees you shepherd your team between protective domes, or risk being stunned by an EMP pulse mid-battle. And there’s just something rather lovely about the use of scale and perspective in these levels. One of the earliest sees you fight amongst ruined wooden houses and a graveyard, like directing toy soldiers between doll houses. Later in the mission, you skim over vast golden plains to explore the wreckage of a vast, burnt-out spaceship which dwarfs you and your crew. There’s storytelling within the levels that feels enjoyably dramatic in a Call-of-Duty way, with my personal favourite mission seeing the outlaws ascend grassy hills to fight a climactic battle atop a dam. Despite the world feeling desolate and barren, I kept wanting to explore and admire the gorgeous North American landscapes.

It’s hardly a narrative masterpiece, but Disintegration’s campaign is about putting a new spin on the classic sci-fi shooter… and letting rip on waves upon waves of robots. The mechanics alone are novel enough to keep you entertained, and once the ability to multi-task the FPS and RTS elements clicks, there’s plenty of room to keep refining your techniques. Once I’d finished the campaign, I went back to replay levels on a higher difficulty with my new-found knowledge, and found myself thinking more carefully about timing my special abilities, and how to smoothly manoeuvre the Gravcycle through levels. In short, it not only entertained me for the nine hour campaign, but kept me coming back.

The multiplayer is, unfortunately, where all this good work comes unstuck. I played a brief two-hour session before Disintegration’s release, but I wanted to test the multiplayer in public matches before writing this review. After three days of trying, I have been unable to connect to a match on PC. Judging by comments left on Steam and Twitter, I’m not alone in experiencing this, although I cannot say whether the problem lies with a technical issue or a simple lack of players.

It’s a shame, because I felt I’d only just scraped the surface of Disintegration’s multiplayer experience. It’s a team-based shooter, kind of like Overwatch if everyone played Pharah. You can pick between nine different Gravcycle crews, all with different perks, strengths and specialities, in three different game modes: Zone Control (capturing zones), Collection (basically team deathmatch with tags), and Retrieval (attack/defence). The modes themselves are fairly standard stuff, but the complexity comes from the ground units, team composition, and maneuvering your Gravcycle. In the first few matches, I initially focused my attention on enemy Gravcycles – which you would, seeing as they’re the enemy player. Yet that’s only half the story, as the ground units are often essential in completing each mode’s objectives. In Collection, for instance, points can be gained from killing enemy ground units rather than just other Gravcycles, and it makes more sense to target these as they’re much easier to kill – and there are simply more of them. In Retrieval, only your ground units can carry the core to the drop-off point.

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I tried flitting between a few different crews to get a feel for them, and went with the obvious tactic of choosing faster crews for attack, and tankier Gravcycles for defence, but I found some of the lighter crews would simply crumble into dust when put under any kind of pressure, and the increased maneuverability wasn’t enough to balance it out. I enjoyed experimenting with the different abilities for each crew, but in the end I found myself favouring high-damage crews like The Ronan to keep up with the carnage. Or maybe that’s just my playstyle – dumping a load of rockets on a fellow journalist’s Gravcycle is quite fun, what can I say?

There were moments in the demo session where I felt the team genuinely start to pull together: people were healing each other, moving as a group to target weaker Gravcycles, and setting up proper defences on zones using proximity mines. To Disintegration’s credit, the multiplayer did make me want to improve. The battles are frantic and not immediately readable to new players, and I imagine there’s a fairly high skill ceiling. This might be where the problem lies, as the multiplayer doesn’t instantly grab you, but becomes more interesting over time.

In the end, of course, I wasn’t able to spend more time with the multiplayer – and it’s disappointing, because Disintegration’s campaign gameplay is so compelling that I would happily recommend it to anyone who asked. Yet it’s hard to justify a £39.99 price tag when half of the game is, for many, currently unusable. I also fear Disintegration’s realistic art style and gritty sci-fi setting makes it appear run-of-the-mill, when its gameplay actually has quite a lot to offer. This might be a case of holding off until later (or perhaps until V1 makes the multiplayer free-to-play), but if you do decide to take the plunge on Disintegration, I can guarantee you one thing: somehow, inexplicably, you will never get tired of smashing robots.

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Profile Josh Harris: billionaire Apollo founder, Mets prospective owner

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The billionaire Josh Harris, who cofounded a sports-investing organisation and one of the most significant alternative investing firms, is taking a look at purchasing the New york city Mets.

Experts discussed how he’s used an aggressive design he refined at Apollo Global Management to the sports world.

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When Marc Lasry bought the Milwaukee Bucks in 2014, his buddy and fellow billionaire Josh Harris tried to pump him for details. Who would Lasry pick first in the NBA draft?

Harris, who cofounded the alternative investment giant Apollo Global Management and owns the Philadelphia 76 ers, in some cases exercised with Lasry at the gym inside Manhattan’s Core Club. It existed that Harris took on the role of interrogator.

Lasry, the creator of the $10 billion hedge fund Opportunity Capital, had actually ended up being accustomed to his longtime friend’s consistent smack talking. While Lasry stretched out with a trainer, Harris would needle him, “Why don’t you lift more weights? It might be useful if you really got some exercise.”

” I wish to be limber,” Lasry would state back.

However he didn’t provide much of an answer when the topic switched to the team he ‘d simply bought. That year, the 76 ers got the No. 3 draft pick; Lasry’s team got the 2nd.

Both men knew three players were going to get selected early: Andrew Wiggins, Jabari Parker, and Joel Embiid.

” I believe the real factor he wanted to learn is they desired Embiid really severely,” Lasry stated during a phone interview with Business Expert. “He would have provided me something in return for us not taking him.”

( The Bucks ended up with Parker and the 76 ers took Embiid.)

Harris, 55, owns or co-owns the 76 ers, the NHL’s New Jersey Devils, and the Crystal Palace Football Club, a London soccer group.

Since Harris led the offer to purchase the 76 ers in 2011, he’s applied his private-equity investing design to his groups by revamping management, updating athletic facilities, snapping up star players, and trying to turn around ailing sports franchises.

” I have actually been a long-lasting Mets fan going back to ’64, and I’m very excited,” one of Harris’ outdoors lawyers, Brad Karp, said.

Last year, the hedge-fund titan Steve Cohen bid $2.6 billion for the group in a deal that was ultimately scuttled over a dispute about the present owners’ control. Cohen, whose representative declined to comment, stays a minority owner.

Hedge-fund mogul Steve Cohen was close to buying the Mets.

Steven Cohen, Chairman and CEO of Point72 Possession Management, speaks at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., May 2,2016

Though there are no signs Cohen has returned to the table, Harris may have other competition. Variety reported in April that the former MLB star Alex Rodriguez and his fiancée, the star and musician Jennifer Lopez, were dealing with a bid for the offer, backed by the biotech financier Wayne Rothbaum. Eric Menell, JPMorgan’s cohead of North American media investment banking, is representing the couple, Variety stated.

On Wednesday, the New york city Post reported that Galatioto Sports Partners, a New York investment bank, was working with investors who could put in as much as $250 million for Rodriguez and Lopez’s quote.

Specifics of settlements are being concealed. The president of Galatioto Sports Partners declined to comment. A spokeswoman for JPMorgan decreased to comment. The lender who is recommending the Mets, Steve Greenberg of Allen & Co., did not react to an ask for comment.

But interviews with more than a dozen people near to him paint an image of the guy who the Mets could quickly find calling the shots from up leading. According to these sources, Harris is among the most hard-driving people they’ve worked with and applies a private-equity playbook to his broadening list of sports assets.

Harris declined to comment for this story.

Harris produced his wealth through private-equity investments, including chemical companies, and as sports owner, he’s faced scrutiny over organisation choices

Harris, who commutes from New york city to 76 ers home games via helicopter, has an enthusiastic work ethic that is regularly pointed out by pals and colleagues.

” Josh calls me all the time to say, ‘Hey, what do you think of this?'” Michael Rubin, Harris’ organisation partner and a co-owner of the 76 ers and Devils, stated. Harris recently texted him as early as 5 a.m. after a midnight call: “Are you up?”

With $350 billion under management, Harris’ alternative investments firm is among the biggest in the industry and known for being amongst the most aggressive financiers.

His mark on the company includes handling many commercial financial investments, consisting of chemical companies such as LyondellBasell, which helped Apollo make a sixfold return after a $2 billion investment developed into $12 billion between 2008 and 2013

The earnings he assisted turn yields him a yearly income of numerous hundred million dollars in yearly pay and dividends– enough to purchase a $45 million seven-level Upper East Side mansion

The wealth he’s built up has actually also made for some tough optics. Harris recently set up– then quickly pulled back– a 20%pay cut for staffers of the 76 ers when the coronavirus suspended the NBA season. When the cut was announced, the 76 ers star Embiid provided to contribute $500,000 to assist affected workers.

A writer at The Philadelphia Inquirer, David Murphy, wrote a rebuke of Harris and his service partner David Blitzer’s choice. Despite the fact that they had actually already backtracked, his column leaned in, slamming them for “4 years of losing,” increasing ticket prices, and a “meaningless house video game in the early stages of the pandemic.”

Embiid, who’s known as “The Process,” informed Business Insider he connected to Harris and other owners after the decision was announced and revealed his opposition to it. The conversation quickly ended up being: How do we make this scenario better?

” I had no concept that was going to occur,” Embiid said of the announcement. “There was not a great deal of interaction.”

It broke with his previous experience with Harris. The prior winter season, Harris had gone to Embiid’s New york city home. The team was going through a rough patch, and Embiid felt he was in a downturn. Harris supplied moral support and asked how he might help.

” Since I got to Philly, he’s made me seem like a partner rather of treating me like somebody who works for him,” he stated. “He values my input– and we got it fixed.”

Joel Embiid.

Costs Streicher-USA TODAY Sports.

Harris’ firm Apollo doesn’t invest in sports companies due to the fact that of perceived disputes of interest

Such public examination isn’t common in the secretive world of personal equity, where Harris has actually dedicated his profession.

Apollo had actually chosen years previously not to invest in sports teams because when it comes to investing other individuals’s money, it could be bothersome if there were any understanding that a firm is managing properties in which a leader has a personal interest.

Adam Aron, the CEO of the 76 ers from 2011 to 2013 who now runs AMC Theatres, has actually known Harris for a great portion of his profession, working as an operating partner at Apollo in between 2006 and 2015 and as the CEO of the former Apollo portfolio business Vail Resorts before that.

Adam Aron, who runs AMC Theatres.

Frazer Harrison/Getty Images.

Harris’ desire to construct a sports empire originated from individual experiences as a college wrestler

Harris relied on sports investing after a life time of sports. Throughout his freshman year at the University of Pennsylvania, Harris battled and in college played competitive pickup basketball with his buddies and fraternity siblings, consisting of Tony Ignaczak, the president of the private-equity firm Quad-C Partners.

In 2011, Harris put together a group of Penn pals, including Ignaczak and Blackstone’s Blitzer, to buy the 76 ers, who were having a hard time with their record and finances.

” I truly think he looked at Apollo as his service legacy and sports as his organisation and philanthropic tradition,” Ignaczak stated.

Experts described how Harris approaches managing his sports groups and uses information to evaluate decisions

NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman.

Associated Press.

Harris evaluates and runs his teams the exact same method he would a portfolio business, Ignaczak stated.

” He really wanted to understand what made the possession– what the upside capacity was– and how he might be able to enhance what was in location,” said Bettman, who also highlighted Harris’ humanitarian dedications to his sports teams’ cities.

Even though the 76 ers have yet to return to the NBA Finals because Harris took over, Lasry and others close to Harris said the group was better-positioned today than it was prior to he bought it, with key gamers included, such as Ben Simmons, who joined in the 2016 draft.

Aron remembered getting a tour of the previous bleak practice center at a Philadelphia college, with then-coach Doug Collins telling him how he required a fridge.

” I stated, ‘Doug, you require a refrigerator?

Sports groups Harris obtained are valued greater today than when he purchased them

Harris commemorates a crucial 76 ers win in2012

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Aside from the Sixers’ win-loss record– the group’s second-worst season in history came in 2015-16, with a 10-72 record, though in 2015, they got back approximately 39-26– it’s hard to argue that Harris and his group have not expanded the business.

Forbes valued the 76 ers at $330 million in 2011, the year Harris bought the group for $280 million. The 76 ers deserved $2 billion this year, according to Forbes. Before Harris’ deal, the team balanced14,000 people per house video game, 26 th in the NBA. In the past 2 years, the group reached first in the league, averaging more than 20,000 fans.

When It Comes To his NHL group, Forbes put the Devils at $320 million in 2013, when Harris bought the majority stake in the group, and $550 million in 2015, though its presence is down a little since Harris purchased in.

What does that mean for the Mets?

” He needs to want to invest the best cash and time to get the right players,” Lasry said of the potential financial investment. “And if he gets that, I think it’s great for the fans of New York.”

Ignaczak, Harris’ close buddy, said his competitive streak has actually emerged when the pair have run races together, like Philadelphia’s half and full marathons.

He recalled one race in particular, when Ignaczak began pressing the rate, pulling ahead from Harris somewhat with a couple of miles to go.

” He crossed about 10 seconds ahead of me,” Ignaczak said.

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From Sales To Streaming — Why Are Flipkart And Zomato Making Movies?

New Internet users in India aren’t used to buying things online. So e-commerce companies are investing in an original video to keep users around on their apps.

AHMEDABAD, Gujarat—In late August, Flipkart announced it’s adding a video-streaming section which will host syndicated and original content on its main shopping app. A few weeks later, Zomato entered the space with its line of original shows — all of which will be available on its food discovery and ordering app for free. Further, Paytm is rumored to be integrating an OTT platform right inside its digital payments app.

So why are e-commerce companies trying to make their users watch videos?

Look around you—everyone is hooked to watching something on their screens now. This was driven home to me in a recent auto-rickshaw ride.

We had just pulled up at a red light and the rickshaw’s driver, Ashok Patel, scrambled to launch the live stream of a cricket match he’d been trying to keep tabs on while steering us through Ahmedabad’s rush hour traffic. The HD-feed began playing almost immediately on Hotstar and Patel was delighted that Rohit Sharma was in form.

“Aap Hotstar dekhte ho?,” I asked him out of curiosity.

“Hotstar?,” he responded.

“Ye jis pe AAP match dekh rahe ho?”

“Hotstar ka pata nahi bhaiya, ye sab toh Jio ki den hai,” he quipped.

Hotstar, a Disney India-owned video streaming service offers live sports content for free to subscribers of India’s leading telecom operator, Reliance Jio.

Patel isn’t the only one. Auto drivers, bus passengers, taxi drivers���all hunched over holding their phones in the landscape orientation and watching everything from sports channels to original web series on any of the thirty streaming platforms available in the country.

An Eros Now-KPMG study predicts more than 500 million Indians will be streaming videos online by 2023 — up from the current 325 million, and trailing China (at ~600 million) by just a fraction. An average user in India today spends a little over hour streaming videos daily, the report added.

“Video streaming in India has seen an exponential growth in the last 2-3 years on the back of democratization of access,” said Girish Menon, Partner, and Head, Media and Entertainment, KPMG in India. “With a thrust by telecom operators on 4G, high-speed broadband has reached close to 570 mn screens in 2019, Further, affordable data prices and a surge in smartphone consumption has meant that customers are now consuming data on multiple screens throughout the day.”

However, of late, entertainment giants like Netflix and Hotstar aren’t the only one trying to capitalize on this trend.

While it may seem that startups like Flipkart and Zomato simply don’t want to be left behind in the video-streaming race, the reality is that they are aren’t competing with video services at all. They have a different end-goal and it’s especially evident when you pay attention to what’s common among the trio’s announcements.

None of them is releasing a dedicated streaming app. Instead, they are bringing a relatively narrow content collection to their primary apps.

Why does a shopping app need to entertain its visitors?

To understand this, we have to look at what’s driving India’s soaring internet figures. Last year, the number of people online from rural regions grew by 35%. Reports say about half of India’s ~500 million Internet users reside in underdeveloped areas, and 50 million more people from these areas are expected to sign up by the end of the year.

Shopping and spending money online are new ideas for these users. Entertainment has a cultural relevance no other Internet activity can match and that’s never been more apparent than during the country’s data boom.

By tapping into what this set of first-time Internet browsers are comfortable with, companies such as Flipkart and Zomato hope to eventually, turn them into potential customers of their core businesses.

“We believe that great content is made available to a wider the base of consumers, especially to those who are new to e-commerce but not necessarily the Internet, can bring them on-board daily, helping negate any anxiety that they may have towards online shopping,” said Flipkart’s Vice President of Growth and Monetization at Flipkart, Prakash Sikaria.

Zomato, in addition to luring new users through original content, wants to increase how often an existing customer visits its app, for how long it stays there, and offer them a way to pass their time while they wait for their order. “With the videos section, we are filling a few gaps — the gap between the moment an order is placed and the moment it is delivered — approximately 30 minutes — by keeping the user entertained,” Durga Raghunath, Senior Vice President, Growth, Zomato told me. 

Paytm didn’t respond to my requests for comment.

Brands need customers to spend time on their apps

“There is a significant possibility that in Tier 3+ markets in India, consumers would experience the Internet for the first time with online video hence making it a gateway tool for a true ‘Digital India’,” mentioned the KPMG report.

Companies also pick the content’s theme depending on what they are selling. For instance, Zomato’s originals largely center around food. Besides, Flipkart is developing a tool that will allow a user to directly ID and shop a piece of apparel they liked in a video.

“All utility apps like e-commerce, food delivery, etc need their customers to stay on for more time and explore what is available. I think more than anything these utility services should look at capturing the time using high-quality short format content that works with their brand,” says Sunil Nair, who is the CEO of Firework India, a short-form video app, and ex-COO of an entertainment conglomerate, ALTBalaji.

Apart from video content, a range of startups including Flipkart, Zomato, and Paytm have tried their luck with in-app games to spur engagement. Games, however, don’t have the same, widespread adoption as games.

Beyond this handful of startups, tech companies are cashing in on the lure of videos to get people to invest in their broader ecosystems. A few weeks back, in a surprising turn of events, Apple — which has been struggling to regain its lost market share in India ― announced it's new streaming the platform will cost just Rs 99 (~$1.3 undercutting rivals such as Netflix and Hotstar.

“With the growing user base and access to a plethora of content, the propensity to pay for OTT platforms is also likely to increase in the future. However, with more than 30 OTT platforms currently, not all of them are likely to have a viable business case and one could see some form of consolidation beginning to happen, once this phase of land grab is over,” anticipates KPMG’s Menon.#MohnishRANotes

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