Byrne Hobart
medium.com/@byrnehobart · Personal blog · on HN since 2017
Byrne Hobart writes essays on Medium about finance, economics, real estate, and tech business models, including WeWork and meal kits.
What HN saysHN commenters call him a favorite finance writer and call his writing superb. They cite his Alchian-Allen piece and meal-kit analysis.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Alchian-Allen and Agglomeration4 people · 2 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 2Peak California3 people · 394 points · first shared 2019 · 362 comments on HN
- 3A Slow-Motion Trainwreck Facing the Meal-Kit Industry3 people · 234 points · first shared 2017 · 315 comments on HN
- 4The 30-Year Mortgage Is an Intrinsically Toxic Product2 people · 107 points · first shared 2019 · 126 comments on HN
- 5The iBuyers: High(er)-Frequency Trading Comes to Home Buying2 people · 4 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 6Writing: Good Career Move, Terrible Career2 people · 3 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 7WORK’s War on Slack2 people · 2 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 8What Is We? Understanding the WeWork IPO2 people · 2 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 9Homepage2 people · first shared 2019
- 10On Perks1 people · 89 points · first shared 2019 · 67 comments on HN
- 11The economics of lying about GDP1 people · 6 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 12Lessons from the East Asian Economic Miracle – Byrne Hobart – Medium1 people · 5 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 13Investing in Bitcoin: The Asset Allocator’s Perspective1 people · 5 points · first shared 2019 · 1 comments on HN
- 14Why It’s Hard to Kill the Bloomberg Terminal1 people · 4 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 15YC, not Lambda School, is unbundling education1 people · 4 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
simonsarris · 2019-02-28
It's a great place to follow high quality individual writers instead of publications. For example one of my favorite finance writers: https://medium.com/@byrnehobart/
harryh · 2019-10-21
Not a regular newsletter, but you might enjoy Byrne Hobart's essays on Medium:
https://medium.com/@byrnehobart
gniv · 2019-09-07
> One weird thing I've noticed is that the California avocados out here are consistently better than they were in California
Were avocados cheaper in CA? It might be the Alchian-Allen Effect: https://medium.com/@byrnehobart/alchian-allen-and-agglomeration-explai…
hn_throwaway_99 · 2019-03-11
Wow, I thought this writing was really superb. I read one of the author's other linked articles, https://medium.com/@byrnehobart/alchian-allen-and-agglomeration-explai… , and it was the first time I read a convincing argument for the relationship between high real estate values and industry concentration in specific urban areas in the age of globalization. Fascinating read IMO.
127001brewer · 2017-07-17
An article called "The Slow-Motion Trainwreck Facing the Meal-Kit Industry" relates how the meal-kit industry faces the same problem(s) as Groupon:
"The problem Groupon faced was that their initial success validated a model that anyone could copy, and everyone who copied it increased both Groupon’s cost of customer acquisition and its churn rate."
https://medium.com/@byrnehobart/the-slow-motion-trainwreck-facing-the-…
Overtonwindow · 2017-06-28
There was a really good article in Medium about this.[0] Basically the Blue Apron model is too easy to duplicate. As more competition enters the space, the higher the costs for recruiting new customers, to the point where it's no longer profitable.
0. https://medium.com/@byrnehobart/the-slow-motion-trainwreck-facing-the-…