I feel like more it’s more interesting to discuss why everything got bad. These companies all grew up and reality hit - Goodreads: Never was going to be massiv

I feel like more it’s more interesting to discuss why everything got bad. These companies all grew up and reality hit - Goodreads: Never was going to be massive social network. Hard to monetize so little investment. - Google Search: SEO + ads obscures what people are looking for - Reddit: Too much investment for the companies current size and lack of growth. Poor new products offerings - YouTube: Taken over by engagement bate and need to monetize - Yelp: business model provides bad incentives - Gmail: promised everyone free stuff and doesn’t charge. Needs to cover costs - Netflix: doesn’t actually own most of the content users used to watch. Has no more subscriber growth - Instagram: Losing ground to new social network and must adapt to be more video+algorithmic - Twitter: makes no money. Had too many employees. Run by Elon who is controversial. Moderation is expensive - Facebook: for my generation at least, a combination of things led people to migrate to other places - Wikipedia: people who moderate for free have agendas - LinkedIn: business model makes for bad incentives - DuckDuckGo: hard to be the third place social network - Amazon: moderation is hard, too much seo and ads, direct from china allows for more cheap goods but introduces more fakes - Medium: nobody wants to pay for pretend news