[apsurd]

why does one need to take on ASML? I had to look it up, semiconductors.

ASML market cap is ~500B. Meta market cap is ~1.5T.

i'm no facebook fan but it was started by a dude in a dorm room.

So I think saying "well those times are gone now" is defeatist.

(fwiw i personally have no interest in building a trillion dollar company from my basement, just talking philosophy here)

[dminik]

If we're going to be like that, we should go for Nvidia. Their market cap is currently ~4T.

I can see that going very well.

[apsurd]

I'm genuinely asking why are we goaling on overtaking the most valuable companies in human history?

Startup advice, as i understand it, is about innovation: expanding the pie. I sound like a VC shill. Don't mean to be, i know it's riddled with rich people passing money around pretending like value is being created.

It's just I don't get what's so wrong with the HN crowd here trying to be better at building a successful company?

[aboardRat4]

>I'm genuinely asking why are we goaling on overtaking the most valuable companies in human history?

The most valuable companies are expected to be the largest, and, as a result, the most inefficient hence the easiest to overtake.