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Tech's really shifted from the days where an idea like Juno would get your app acquired, and possibly get you hired under their wing to help improve the base product. That's when you can really tell the hacker mentality left big tech.



It’s been said before on here that the MBAs have won in big tech and I think that’s fair.


This sort of tribalism is utterly insufferable. “The good decisions? They were us! And the bad ones? They were made by those idiots over there!”


Calm down, Google.


When the zero interest rates left, at least.


And Lina Kahn came in


Are you suggesting Lina is on the side of big Tech?


He's suggesting that acquisitions aren't happening because of antitrust enforcement. I'm pretty sure that has no bearing on the type of tiny acquisition we're talking about here but then again I don't actually know what I'm talking about.


May I recommend watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWcoZVSx1T8, by Thomas Laffont who runs an investment fund.

The FTC is blocking acquisitions, which is one major exit strategy for startups.


It left big tech when software stores got introduced and systems got locked down in the name of "security".

These stores are quite different to software repositories and it left use with disabled operating systems for mobile devices.




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