> They have been able to reap the benefits of scaling, but have not had to pay the costs of it Indeed. The internet hasn't been regulated in the same way as ot

> They have been able to reap the benefits of scaling, but have not had to pay the costs of it Indeed. The internet hasn't been regulated in the same way as other mediums. Expanding into it had a low bar of entry and these "heroes" were the best executions. This was mostly luck, as if google didn't exist, we might well all be saying Yahoo founders were geniuses for getting the same engineers and product people pushing the same goals instead.