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Warren Buffett and Dan Gilbert Unite in Bid to Acquire Yahoo

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Re: Warren Buffett and Dan Gilbert Unite in Bid to Acquire Yahoo

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Mega-companies will only ever end up eventually creating a G+. 300 smaller companies each doing a few things well. That is true growth. Every time you use the word "growth" to describe "success", you will find that you only have new mouths to feed.

That's patently false. Pun intended. Innovation is not limited to startups. Underneath the hood, there's an absolutely massive amount of r&d and innovation that goes into Intel's chips year on year. Google's progress in machine learning for speech and photos is impressive. The big companies often do very well innovating. Intel producing another innovation that drives a billion dollars of sales isn't as exciting as a…

You're talking about the economy in a "Plinko chip" sort of way, and I'm talking about community building. If you want good products and a well paying society, you need to promote more individual nodes rather than giant motherships. And by "promote", I mean actually want it instead of talking about how the rules apply to the current system.

Re: Warren Buffett and Dan Gilbert Unite in Bid to Acquire Yahoo

#132
post #102
post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mega-companies will only ever end up eventually creating a G+. 300 smaller companies each doing a few things well. That is true growth. Every time you use the word "growth" to describe "success", you will find that you only have new mouths to feed.

That's patently false. Pun intended. Innovation is not limited to startups. Underneath the hood, there's an absolutely massive amount of r&d and innovation that goes into Intel's chips year on year. Google's progress in machine learning for speech and photos is impressive. The big companies often do very well innovating. Intel producing another innovation that drives a billion dollars of sales isn't as exciting as a…

And if something is patently false I shouldn't be able to point to hundreds of examples where you're wrong.

Re: Warren Buffett and Dan Gilbert Unite in Bid to Acquire Yahoo

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You would invest time and effort and money in overtaking much larger or smaller, leaner properties that are all experiencing negative growth in an industry that has seen a bottoming out of it's primary revenue source and a race to the bottom in quality?

> a race to the bottom in quality? There's your issue.

But it's not an issue where quality is _rewarded_. That is not a competitive edge.
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