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by jonyt 3159 days ago
Simply disallow startup acquisitions for companies above a certain value/marketshare. This will prevent them from killing competition. For example the social networking space would probably have been disrupted several times by now had Facebook not been allowed to purchase Instagram and Whatsapp.
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Maybe?

It also likely would have reduced investment in social startups, especially those that didn’t have growth to indicate “breakout” status.

> reduced investment in social startups

Sounds like a feature, not a bug.

Not if you're trying to disrupt FB, surely?