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by philistine 1367 days ago
So you’re one good hire away from losing your business. I’d be sure to differentiate and have other venues for revenue.
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By your theory, any business with suppliers or retail customers is one hire away from extinction. But we don’t actually see all that much of this kind of competition out in the real world. There is a reason that firms specialize: the size and organization of a firm is tied pretty tightly to the kinds of activities that pay the bills and manufacturing is very different from sales and marketing is very different from running an online retail marketplace.