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Johannes  Gross's avatar

I agree with the core point of the article, however I think the example chosen will actually show the downside of individual control. Zuckerberg abandoned his own lesson from building facebook: Test your hypothesis with the customer early and often. Metaverse, while developing great tech, will go onto the dust pile of history. It is reality that we want to transform and make like a computer game. Nobody wants to move into a computer game. Second Life, Metaverse ...

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Nathan Mintz's avatar

The market rewards them buying product lines through M&A- it punishes them for near term investments in their own products. They are just doing what markets reward them to do, which is turn into technology equivalent of REITs

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Adam Judelson's avatar

Great point noticing what Primes have NOT invested in despite clear market signal.

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