FAANGs are conquering everything
Looking at so many startups laying people off I have come to realize from an buisness point of view FAANGs and Googe/Amazon in particular are basically conquering the world by having so many different revenue streams Amazon is invested in cloud, e-retail, retail(Whole Foods), Alexa, Kindle, Prime TV Google is even more insane Search, Ads, Waymo, Cloud(Which is lagging), Chromebooks(Laptops), Assistant, Android, Youtube TV I remember people saying to work at startups to make big bucks but given such breadth of buisness areas of Google/Amazon how will a startup be able to compete with them? Dropbox was a cool startup once upon a time-Amazon AWS/GCP make it obselete Quora was a cool startup but how much money will they make given their ads monetization will never reach Snap/FB/Google level Nutanix was private cloud infra company but in the wake of AWS/Azure who will use them Vmware used to provide virtual machines but given the move to public cloud everyone will move to using AWS vm or containers and eventually they will build their own vm Sorry if I am misunderstanding/trivializing things but from a buisness point of view I beleive slowly all tech will consolidate in these companies as they have so much breadth and first mover advantage.
Please add docker to the list 😂
Waymo is a revenue stream? Interesting
I think what OP implied is (at least that’s the way I am interpreting, even though it lists Waymo in revenue stream), Waymo is way ahead in tech stack than most self driving startups.
Yes that was my implication Google has its roots in possible future revenue streams as well.
Quora was exactly what you said.. "cool" startup. Nothing more. They barely had any revenue sources but paying shit high salaries and competing for talent with Google/FB. Why?!
So you think every good idea that can be had has already been had/will be had at FAANG? Yeah, no.
Features are not products!
We already knew that? 2000-2012 was the decade-ish for startups and unicorns 2012-now is the era where big companies swallow up the startups
2020 is the era when government will break down big tech
Yes read "The End of the Beginning" essay by Ben Thompson on this.
Disagree. Startups are often way more focused and in some cases even better capitalized than the internal team at a FANG. Eg. Zoom
Yeah but afterwards they will be broken up.
not if they control the voting machines and everyone’s RSUs in the world 😂