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It's pretty simple. Greed = desire for largest market = lowest common denominator.


True.

I think that this mania for getting bigger with no bounds (a company never being happy with their revenue) leads to destroying all consumer-friendly values in the end.

In older times, companies could run for decades, and build steadily. They would also be content to have certain constant revenue/profit.

I wish there were more people content with running a steady web business -- something like 37 Signals, instead of "aim for the sky" startups. Nowadays it's all about getting from $10 millions a year to $100 millions or a billion, as quick as you can, and screw your original services and customers.

We'd have far more depandable and non hostile web services that way.




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