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...competition in probably more of a positive sum capacity than others. We feel like we have a lot to learn from other firms. We have deep respect for a lot of other firms. We always try our best to be as collaborative as possible. I view competition as
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...competition, all the rest. So what happens is, you know, let's say each cookie costs a dollar to make. Well, I start out maybe I started selling them for $2. I wanna make a dollar a cookie. But my competitor realizes that if they charge a dollar 99,
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The value that one platform delivers has to be materially better than the other. And remember, this is a matching situation, and I won't get into the technical aspects of it, but basically it's equivalent to sort of a distance formulation. Even in mu
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...competition in probably more of a positive sum capacity than
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...is zero sum thinking, how value is being created at every layer of the stack, and the risks of monopolies versus the reality of concentrated markets.
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...zero sum thinking has been tremendously wrong. I mean, NVIDIA is continuing to grow in value. The hosting providers, which everybody wrote off as being kind of non defensible business, continue to grow in value. The model companies, which I can't tel
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...competition. It doesn't have any no competition. Right? I would love to have no competition, but that's the box I just completely have given up on despite wishing I could check it. No competition. I would if I could, that would be a gift, but it's th
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firm can't compete and win deals in an efficient market, they're they're going to lose. And so I I it might really is my second point, which is I think there's a lot of venture capital, venture capitalist identity is tied in being non consensus, in b
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...competition, all the rest. So what happens is, you know, let's say each cookie costs a dollar to make. Well, I start out maybe I started selling them for $2. I wanna make a dollar a cookie. But my competitor realizes that if they charge a dollar 99,
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...it's zero sum. Right? Like, I I don't think any of this is going to be zero sum. Like, people say, oh, well, that's gonna swap software, and I'm like, well, is it really swapping for software? If your business is getting more productive, you're build
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...without real competition, and you have a chance of really building something, no, a real moat. Now, if you're wrong, it's not gonna help you. But if you happen to be right, then these are some of the the greatest outcomes. And and again, this is not
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...And it's a statement without consideration about competition,
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...competition. There's actually this great quote. I think it's from YC, but it may be from somewhere else where startups die of suicide, not homicide. I've believed that for every single company. And candidly, I've my first company died by suicide. I b
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...getting more for less has been achieved so greatly by these companies that to go and invest in a competitor, sometimes this doesn't make sense. Gmail being free is a really hard price for the industry to compete with. The browsers being free is an in
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but competition is fierce. Chamath, your thoughts here on the game on the field. Code red for people who don't know in our industry is when everybody reports to the office and gets focused on one thing. And, that's apparently what Sam's doing. How do
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Zero sum thinking has been wrong. That doesn't mean that you can't get in trouble. Every SaaS company under the sun has launched an AI product. They're not just sitting on their hands. And you'd think that they'd have a huge advantage given distribut
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