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stackghost • yesterday at 10:28 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Most of the tech unicorns are like this. Zuckerberg caught lightning in a bottle one single time and everything they’ve tried since has sucked. Instagram was an acquisition. So were oculus and WhatsApp. By contrast their next in-house flagship was temu Wii avatars.

Amazon hasn’t built anything innovative since the Kindle.

Surely it’s a consequence of being publicly traded that these companies cease to be able to develop good novel products rather than acquire competitors or iterate on past successes.


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al_borland • yesterday at 11:01 PM

When you have nothing, risk is cheap. Once you make it, the strategy tends to shift from growth to protection.