| > See the pattern? The biggest tech successes of our era didn’t win through superior technology or innovation. - PayPal won by creating technology that makes it easier / possible than any alternative to send and receive money via the internet. - Uber won through creating an app that lets you hail a ride and creating a marketplace for that. - Airbnb won through innovating on the social idea of paying someone and creating a marketplace for that. - Facebook won through creating an innovative social networking technology and creating an ad marketplace on top of that. - Amazon won through creating an innovative website and marketplace for goods that offered innovations to the consumer like quick shipping times and risk-free purchases via easy returns. - Tesla won through literally creating a product (EV) and charging network for EVs that people are willing to pay for. This article is arguing in bad faith. All of these services won because they created something that solved a problem and created value for millions or billions of people, either making plenty of money along the way, or with high potential to make money at any given point in time. If this is cheating, then all of capitalism and the innovations that scale and improve life for the world via capitalism are all "cheating". Build something people want and whatnot. |