3 ms·
> He doesn’t need to critique the market You don't need to critique his comment and I don't need to critique your comment. Yet here we are > MS is doing fine
by unmole 3y ago
> He doesn’t need to critique the market
You don't need to critique his comment and I don't need to critique your comment. Yet here we are
> MS is doing fine with dev tools (VS Code, GitHub…)
GitHub has a revenue of about a billion. That's less than 0.5% of Microsoft's revenue. And like the comment pointed out, behemoths capture the bulk of the revenue. What exactly is he wrong about?
- cornercasechase 3y ago[flagged]
- jchw 3y agoThe valuation of the companies is not necessarily great evidence that it's a fertile market; it's pretty saturated. The problem is most people don't need a new GitHub or Visual Studio because theirs works just fine and everyone else also uses it, so it's easier to just do that. And sure, a billion dollars is an unfathomable amount of money to the average person, and a handsome exit for entrepreneurs depending on how it's structured. But when it comes to entire industries, it's pocket change.