I feel like its inevitable to grow most businesses in which they are structured from outside investment. Outliers here may be Microsoft And Apple, but they swal

I feel like its inevitable to grow most businesses in which they are structured from outside investment. Outliers here may be Microsoft And Apple, but they swallowed nascent markets that were either just underway or they had major capital to spend their way aggressively toward the top of the heap (Apple, with the Macintosh and later the iPhone, Microsoft with Office / Windows and now Azure) Most other platforms struggle to stay platforms because the profits and/or growth slows or flatlines. Facebook has had massive growth since dumping any platform focus that they used to have, in terms of revenue. They instead made strategic investments so they have a near iron lock on the market in which they exist, all while burning the platform from a provider side. It hard to be a platform and remain true to core values when there is outside investor pressure. I sure hope this never befalls a company like Cloudflare (which has so far remained a platform), but we shall see as time goes on.