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at what point is competition stifled when large companies can just totally copy competition by throwing money at something. In ten years, we will have an American Samsung.

How would you address the problem when you can’t copyright a business model or an idea? It’s very true the value is in the execution, and in a lot of cases, an enormous tech company with effectively limitless resources will always be able to execute better than you.

I’m a fan of using regulation against such entities and behaviors, I’m just unsure what the antitrust or monopoly issue is on short social video clips. You could build something similar with Backblaze, Cloudflare, and mobile apps.

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at what point is competition stifled when large companies can just totally copy competition by throwing money at something. In ten years, we will have an American Samsung.

if you're building a business which a large company can just come in and copy by throwing money at it, then you're doing it wrong.

You should either have a plan or try hard to come up with one to prevent that situation, or avoid that market altogether. This is business 101 and is the most frequently asked question when you pitch a VC: "What will you do when Google copies you?"

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at what point is competition stifled when large companies can just totally copy competition by throwing money at something. In ten years, we will have an American Samsung.

if you're building a business which a large company can just come in and copy by throwing money at it, then you're doing it wrong. You should either have a plan or try hard to come up with one to prevent that situation, or avoid that market altogether. This is business 101 and is the most frequently asked question when you pitch a VC: "What will you do when Google copies you?"

Tiktok is worth about 50 billion dollars. Hard to argue that’s “doing it wrong”

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at what point is competition stifled when large companies can just totally copy competition by throwing money at something. In ten years, we will have an American Samsung.

How would you address the problem when you can’t copyright a business model or an idea? It’s very true the value is in the execution, and in a lot of cases, an enormous tech company with effectively limitless resources will always be able to execute better than you. I’m a fan of using regulation against such entities and behaviors, I’m just unsure what the antitrust or monopoly issue is on short social video clips. Y…

where's the problem for the consumer?
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