Err, please consider the context of this discussion, which is Peter Thiel's views on monopoly vs competition. From the article: >I argue that great companies

Err, please consider the context of this discussion, which is Peter Thiel's views on monopoly vs competition. From the article: >I argue that great companies succeed not by competing with everybody else but by differentiating themselves—by becoming so good at what they do that no other firm can offer a close substitute. I wasn't addressing people who complain about things like yor points (1) to (4), I was addressing Peter Thiel's argument.