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Information was always the moat for everything. We literally have spies who risk their lives to try to gain access to information.
by whatever1 9mo ago
Information was always the moat for everything. We literally have spies who risk their lives to try to gain access to information.
- tehjoker 9mo agoThis is heavily context dependent... There are plenty of situations where everyone knows the relevant factors, it's who has possession of land, resources, people, etc.
- eloisant 9mo agoYes, during the 2000's there was the "mashup" fads. People creating companies around mashing data from one service to another. Like putting Craigslist listings on a Google Map. And guess what, all those mashup companies didn't last a couple of years. Because they didn't have a direct access to data.
- calvinmorrison 9mo agoyet sites like, gasbuddy and builtwith.com do seem to have a strong presence and a valuable one.
- gopher_space 9mo agoIdeas that didn't scale past a comfortable income for the three people originally involved.