>And what's wrong with that? I think pg would likely answer "Nothing". Whenever he brings up that sort of entrepreneurship, it's generally to showcase the rari

>And what's wrong with that? I think pg would likely answer "Nothing". Whenever he brings up that sort of entrepreneurship, it's generally to showcase the rarity and timescale with which these small businesses (IBM, Boeing, GE) got huge in a time before the internet. I'd agree that the Internet hasn't made big businesses get any more substantive, but it has allowed them to get bigger faster.