The article is an accurate assessment of the landscape today, but is it going to be true next year or five years from now? You can never be too sure! Using a b

The article is an accurate assessment of the landscape today, but is it going to be true next year or five years from now? You can never be too sure! Using a bit of imagination to think of risks these giants face : * Antitrust - could happen when it's politically advantageous to publicly bash tech giants * Stock market - a recession could reduce tech giants’ leverage by a lot * China - competition from Chinese companies or the Communist party imposes an embargo * Technology - another AI winter or maybe some other company gets the edge in quantum computing for instance * Demand - their products today are better versions of what they were ten years ago, not completely new things. What if users turn away from these tech companies as they become the ‘old way of doing things’? * Startups - Google grew on Microsoft's watch, Amazon on Walmart's, Facebook on Google's, Apple on Nokia's, Snap on Facebook's. What's next? * Crypto - ethereum, bitcoin, etc. could usher in a whole new internet experience where giants on the 'old' internet find it hard to gain a foothold While working on a startup today might feel like picking pennies in front of a bulldozer, tech giants face a number of risks of their own. Startups would better focus on internal excellence than fret about tech giant monopoly.