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As someone who's lived and worked in the Bay Area for 16+ years, this is a fantastic article. It's just spot on in its characterization of the old and new Microsoft, the old and new Google, Lyft/Uber, and many other companies.

I worry that many won't read it because it's so long.

Now I need to go look up everything else Tim O'Reilly has written. He is a wise man. I of course know who he is -- mainly through books and conferences I suppose -- but I didn't know about his other experience in business.

It's interesting that in the early days of the web he started a Yahoo-like company before Yahoo and sold it to AOL, and a Windows web server company that competed with Netscape.