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When working out what business you're in, you should ask yourself, "why do my customers pay me?", not "what do my operations do?"

For example:

Google is in the same industry as News Corp. They sell advertising space, that's what they're paid for.

So with Penn rail: what are the customers paying for? It's not trains or rail operations. It's getting from A to Z.



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