1/ Lately, I've been reading books from VCs, trying to fill in more areas of my Silicon Valley ecosystem mental map. Most recently I read The Hard Thing About Hard Things (@bhorowitz) and Secrets of Sand Hill Road (@skupor), since @a16z seems to win the most.
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In an arena where web-scale platforms face off against the indieweb, I think the former wins most of the time, and evolutionary out-competes. I'm looking for products that can forge transformative ecosystems at an accelerated rate, and is capable of fending off the giants.
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I think "fending off" is a mistake. I think the win is in a solution that lives client-side and acts as an intermediary between any number of services. I shouldn't go to https://twitter.com for my twitter access I should go to localhost:3000 and do twitter, mastodon, email
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I think it's not viable as long as we have extant platforms dominating the entire industry with de-facto monopolies. What if Tweets were an open standard, and any company could make their own implementation? Why not let a thousand flowers bloom and federate?
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But Mastodon will never "win" as long as Twitter exists, you know?
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