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Our current era -before the virus panic and now - reminds me of the great unwinding after the dot com boom. Ironically meetup was born lean and hungry in 2002 a
by olivermarks 7y ago
Our current era -before the virus panic and now - reminds me of the great unwinding after the dot com boom. Ironically meetup was born lean and hungry in 2002 and took advantage of Web 2.0 later that decade as they matured. Now they are an old, fat company that failed the networks effect business goal, got bought by the crazy softBank/WeWorks 'let's take over the world' Saudi and Japanese megafund who just like the later dot com founders last century seem to be completely deluded. Meetup had already missed the boat and is twisting in the wind. Big opportunity for the next generation when the dust settles post Covid 19 for a '20's next generation iteration...
- eloc49 7y agoBig opportunity if FB gets hit with antitrust. I don’t see how anybody could effectively compete with FB events.
- olivermarks 7y agoGreat point, I'm hoping Big Tech gets more regulated to allow innovation by startups to resume
- isoskeles 7y agoI hope Big Tech isn't writing the regulations, which it is already attempting to do (https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-rules-internet-regulation-a9341816.html https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/ne...). This is one of the easiest ways to burden startups that do not have the resources to comply with regulations written by and for Facebook, etc.