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People thought Pets.com was here to stay as well
by breezybottom 5mo ago
People thought Pets.com was here to stay as well
- meta_ai_x 5mo agochewy.com is literally pets.com and it is thriving. Remember HN is mocking the capability/technology itself not the ability of specific firms to survive.
- breezybottom 5mo agoIt seems pretty clear to me that we've exhausted the possibilities of the transformer architecture. Whatever we're using in 20 years will certainly be a different technology.
- gruez 5mo ago>chewy.com is literally pets.com and it is thriving. Seems like a stretch, considering it's down 50% compared to a year ago. https://www.nyse.com/quote/XNYS:CHWY https://www.nyse.com/quote/XNYS:CHWY
- topaz0 5mo agoChewy.com is not pets.com. They're in the same market, but it's not useful to say that a business built around limitless hypergrowth is the same as a business built around medium sized sustainability.
- simianwords 5mo agoThe analogy doesn't work at all. Pets is a single small company. The dot-com boom largely survived and was profoundly important. I just.. I don't know the mental model of the people who speak like this. What is the point you are trying to make..
- breezybottom 5mo agoOk, then people thought Enron was here to stay, until it wasn't. Life is ephemeral.