Intangible Investment

Kyle Ryan
Desk of Kyle
Published in
1 min readAug 16, 2018

Software doesn’t work like this. Microsoft might spend a lot of money to develop the first unit of a new program, but every unit after that is virtually free to produce. Unlike the goods that powered our economy in the past, software is an intangible asset. And software isn’t the only example: data, insurance, e-books, even movies work in similar ways.

https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Capitalism-Without-Capital?WT.mc_id=08_16_2018_06_CapitalismWithoutCapital_BG-LI_&WT.tsrc=BGLI&linkId=55623312

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