Another poor quality article with little research. It started with big tech companies are bad and followed that with some reasons. Lot of start-up don't succeed

Another poor quality article with little research. It started with big tech companies are bad and followed that with some reasons. Lot of start-up don't succeed because they are not innovative and lack vision. The ones that did add value are doing well likes of uber, Netflix, airbnb, slack. In fact, if the author expands his world view a bit more and looks across the globe than he will find many more such examples. Even within the big five there is significant amount of competition and currently it is good for customers. This article is just crying wolf without offering any substantial reasons. Big companies buying of smaller competitors isn't some cunning move neither it is something new. This happened all the time even earlier. In fact the rise of cloud services has reduced the entry barrier for tech companies significantly by reducing upfront capital costs. Imagine if before starting a factory you first had to build a coal powered electric plant, not many would venture i guess. The argument about snapchat paying google for cloud services is just absurd. It would be costlier for snap to build this on their own.