Cory DoctorowThis profile of me in *The New Yorker* came out really well, if I do say so myself:
Kim Scheinberg@pluralistic
This is a fantastic interview.
"This is why merger scrutiny is such a big deal, because these companies are not built by super geniuses who use their access to the capital markets to build these impregnable businesses which no one else can assail. They are regular, venal mediocrities who use their access to the capital markets to buy everyone who might threaten them. If there’s merger scrutiny, that just stops happening."
'Venal mediocrities' is going into my autocomplete file.
Andrew Jon Thomson@kims @pluralistic It’s an excellent point and in addition to only making one and a half original products there was no innovative technology in the search engine either; it was an innovative marketing concept of not having their homepage a sea of advertising. A principle which is long since all but abounded.