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by jaxn 4799 days ago
This isn't really a new kind of startup at all. The only thing that is changing is the scale companies like this can achieve.

Before, tech-enabled startups would have to build big tech chops in order to scale the business (i.e. amazon, tech enabled them to skip building storefronts and focus on innovating logistics), now the scaling problem has gotten much easier.