The flaw in that thinking is that it isn't the best people or ideas, it is the exclusive club that leads to opportunity, a curated fixed market. Exclusivity is

The flaw in that thinking is that it isn't the best people or ideas, it is the exclusive club that leads to opportunity, a curated fixed market. Exclusivity is rarely the reason why something is innovative, in many cases it prevents innovation and good products. Due to bias it may overlook what is actually "good" compared to that which comes from a broader set and net. Open markets where anything can be published, where the only exclusivity is the money pushing it, have more entries, more products. Sure there are more bad products but the good products are better than any controlled or curated market could produce due to this bias. Not only that, the bad products might be good one day and would have been curated out in other platforms. The top 1% of open markets will always beat the top 1% of curated markets, largely because what is good may be outside the bias. An example of this would be games on Steam, from indies to large companies. The more innovative are always smaller, unknown or unexpected games where more risk can be taken. Another example would be startups are better at many things than large companies, anything that involves research and development that may have some risk. Sometimes the companies that never get funding come up with the better solutions due to the scrappiness and non saturated funding environment. The established players and curation systems or large borgs of bias, are too uppety to know what is good across the broad market. False fixed markets are a wall to new ideas and products. In the end curated markets have a weak spot, the larger groups will work overtime to limit the challengers that aren't in the biased path so they don't get beat by competition, they are ultimately anti-competitive at scale. Open markets are democratic and bottom up, closed curated markets are authoritarian and top down. In short, for products, exclusives suck.