Robert AtkinsApr 24, 2024

No punches pulled here.

The meta-point is no company should be *allowed* to be so big that putting one dickhead in charge can ruin a piece of significant infrastructure. Doubleclick should never have been allowed to buy Google.
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it seems blindingly obvious from the outside, but if the metric you're measuring is "number of search queries" then you're going to optimize for that. and one way of doing so is making (or, through...

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I think about this in the context of nation-states. Cap the size of any administrative body to an electorate of, I don’t know, 10 million people? And build a global culture of your neighbours forcing you to split off a new parliament at the point of a gun if you exceed that size. What would be the commercial equivalent? #ScaleRuinsEverything
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Maybe something like Finnish “Folkracing” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folkrace) where you’re obliged to sell your company for $100MM if anyone asks. #ScaleRuinsEverything
Folkrace - Wikipedia