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It's not a question of liking moats or not. Nobody has found any other routes to scale quickly. The moat is fundamental to producing the kind of scaling we see
by goc_ 8y ago
It's not a question of liking moats or not. Nobody has found any other routes to scale quickly. The moat is fundamental to producing the kind of scaling we see today.
- pmontra 8y agoBut how many moats there could be in world (or in any given market) ? Furthermore which should ask on which side of the moat are we and if it's good for us to be there. There was a post yesterday which fundamentally is about this issue https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17642551 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17642551
- juae 8y agoIt's a competitive world full of highly ambitious people. As long as the only tool they have to create/expand/defend their empires is moat building that is all they will robotically do irrespective of the cost. The pressure on them to do so is massive. And it's the easiest thing for them to do. So they do it. Ofcourse things constantly collapse. Ask Genghis Khan, the East India Company etc etc And after collapse everyone stands around like Alan Greenspan saying wtf happened?
- mannykannot 8y agoScaling quickly is not the greater good.
- CSMastermind 8y agoSometimes it is.
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