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The reason eToys stuck in my mind was their ham fisted legal battle against eToy: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-features/etoys-vs-etoy

• tptacek 9y ago
  Of course not! Webvan was an enormous undertaking. No amount of bongwater gets you the service Webvan built --- a service, for what it's worth, that has also created several unicorns, an IPO, and the largest Amazon acquisition in its history. I was a Webvan customer in San Francisco, and it was better than anything I had for 10+ years afterwards. Be careful about what you're trying to argue. If Taibbi was just arguing that Goldman participated in the startup market, and that most startups fail, he'd be saying something true but banal. But that's not what Taibbi's saying. He's saying something that's not banal, but also probably not true.