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by melling 5562 days ago
They started in New York City instead of Silicon Valley. :-)

Isn't this a classic case of someone else executing better. Google, Intel, Amazon, and Facebook are all followers, for example. Microsoft was a big follower. The didn't invent spreadsheets, word processors, or OS's with a GUI. Diapers.com went for a fortune. I'm sure they weren't the first guys with that idea.