I also don't think novelty is the primary value add of most companies; if it were, we'd be spending *a lot* more of our actual and figurative budgets on core R&D. The mission is also e.g. causing adoption, which counsels differentiation in feature set, marketing, segment, etc.
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(You'll note that the people who are most likely to say "X is uninteresting because it is functionally equivalent to an offering that already exists" are a) artisans who b) have a business structured functionally identical to thousands of other providers to c) sell *money*.)
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"Who's that a reference to?" Venture capitalists, whose primary customers are limited partners (LPs = sources of the money), and to whom they can express at florid length how their firm with a very similar product to many others is actually quite differentiated, thank you.
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As far as I can recall, you have been relentlessly bearish on cryptocurrency. Did I misunderstand your stance? If not, then why are you promoting it now?
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One dentist can’t supply the entire market like software can with the infrastructure we have now. But yes, agree with you not to freak out about competition

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One startup can rarely supply the entire market. Case in point: Email marketing. Plenty of people switching between MailChimp, Drip or ConvertKit just because of what kind of customer they focus on. Even though all 3 just "Help you send email to your users"
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Last to market often wins all, there’s ample evidence for that.
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Another way of putting it: "when something's missing, it's always in the last place you look!". Well yeah, because usually when I find something, I stop looking
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But Peter Thiel says I should be striving for a monopoly.
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oligopolies are good too :)
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