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This last wave of startups has brought an incredible number of successful ones, and innumerable number ones waiting for monetization. As you said, the audien
by alperakgun 15y ago
This last wave of startups has brought an incredible number of successful ones, and innumerable number ones waiting for monetization. As you said, the audience grew to billions of people. I remember in 2000, we were still trying to convince people that Internet is here to stay,to shop and to do business.
- joshuamerrill 15y agoSimilarly in mobile, where worldwide subscribers have grown from ~400 million in 1999 to over 5 billion today. The smartphone segment of that is still relatively small, but it's growing 100% year over year. Meanwhile, today's largest Internet companies have five times as many users as the entire Internet subscriber base in 1999. My point is, startups that can profitably solve a problem have HUGE markets to sell to!