> A couple founders eating ramen could very easily launch a new web product back then. Now it’s tough to get recognized The competition was signficantly lower

> A couple founders eating ramen could very easily launch a new web product back then. Now it’s tough to get recognized The competition was signficantly lower back then as well. Not only is all of the low hanging fruit gone, but those start ups who made it are now the current behemoth incumbents and are trying to clean up the whole orchard (so to speak).