SEC try to avoid monopolies and they scrutinize a lot during merge and acquisitions. But a big tech company can pretty much expand their portfolio, pour their money into a startup to knock off other startups out side their domain. Eg., Amazon investing in zoox, already invested in Rivian as well. Let's say a startup like fandango exists and IMDb existed as separate entities. Now Amazon acquired IMDB and knocks of every other player. Some company invested in limebike and now other players are forced to have big money to compete with them. 1) Isn't this unfair competition? 2) Pretty much top tech companies had invested in every sector in Craigslist. This gives them an unfair advantage and in a way leads to monopoly. Shouldn't SEC have some guidelines in investing as well? This adds pressure to startups to look for heavy funding to fight against those big sharks and leads to heavy inflated valuations.
What does SEC have to do with this? If at all an issue, this is more of an antitrust issue, I think DOJ handles those. It's just free market and companies can invest wherever they want, what you are thinking of is similar to production licenses, those are bad.
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