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by breezybottom 32 days ago
People thought Pets.com was here to stay as well
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chewy.com is literally pets.com and it is thriving.

Remember HN is mocking the capability/technology itself not the ability of specific firms to survive.

>chewy.com is literally pets.com and it is thriving.

Seems like a stretch, considering it's down 50% compared to a year ago.

https://www.nyse.com/quote/XNYS:CHWY

It seems pretty clear to me that we've exhausted the possibilities of the transformer architecture. Whatever we're using in 20 years will certainly be a different technology.
Chewy.com is not pets.com. They're in the same market, but it's not useful to say that a business built around limitless hypergrowth is the same as a business built around medium sized sustainability.
The analogy doesn't work at all. Pets is a single small company. The dot-com boom largely survived and was profoundly important.

I just.. I don't know the mental model of the people who speak like this. What is the point you are trying to make..

Ok, then people thought Enron was here to stay, until it wasn't. Life is ephemeral.