[thisrod]

PG has written about that. He made the point that, in 1998, the people with experience and wisdom all agreed that the world had enough search engines already.

[rimliu]

I have an issue with "all". Unless he did interview all the people with experience and wisdom. Otherwise it is just a soundbite.

[jjallen]

This one reminds me of when years ago I wrote about the "already-exists" startup fallacy/bias: https://medium.com/@halfhenry/how-to-tell-when-you-should-an...

[tibbetts]

Well they were only off by one or two.