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I mostly agree with you, but I think what's happening here is reminiscent of the e-commerce vs brick&mortar debates from years ago. Ultimately, Amazon started a
by browningstreet 7y ago
I mostly agree with you, but I think what's happening here is reminiscent of the e-commerce vs brick&mortar debates from years ago. Ultimately, Amazon started as an e-commerce business that has a whole ton of brick and mortar capital and infrastructure.
For a long time, tech companies wanted to do everything virtually (apps, cloud, etc) and people NOT from the tech industry had an understanding of the brick & mortar world and harnessed tech to create a boom of some kind.
I think Uber is like that, in that the level of tech needed -- not just an app, but a global infrastructure that has to stay up and takes payments in a lot of countries -- when married with the real world, created a kind of behemoth.
They're also financial structure jockeys, and We is more contracts & funding and not really all that much tech.
- OJFord 7y ago> but a global infrastructure that has to stay up and takes payments in a lot of countries To play devil's advocate though, that's just the 'back office' updated to replace manual book keeping with automatic software. (Well, 'just'.) I think we can usefully describe companies as both 'tech-heavy company in the <domain>' and '<domain> company that uses tech' depending where the emphasis should be for a particular sentence. It just doesn't really mean anything to me alone.
- novok 7y agoGoogle is 'just' replacing library card catalogs with software :p