Comment by spease
1 year ago
Some things can only be done at scale, or are a side effect of solving problems at scale. It’s not quite so simple as “big is bad”.
Also, it’s harder for international companies to buy, say, Google, than a browser-only company, just through the amount of capital needed to put up a credible offer.
But it also works vice versa. Remember that Google literally misses its own ChatGPT while key figures literally work at Google.
These trillion-dollar companies only focus on billion-dollar markets and kill their own products that are deemed unable to scale at a planetary level