On the one hand I agree that there's a lot of complications on the non-tech side of things over there, but on the other I can't help thinking that many successf

On the one hand I agree that there's a lot of complications on the non-tech side of things over there, but on the other I can't help thinking that many successful tech efforts had some non-trivial roadblocks to overcome, e.g. google (who needs another search engine?) and youtube (how are they possibly going to monetize that?) come to mind.