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It wasn't the size of the Internet usually. Usually it was some structural change, most commonly the arrival of smartphones.
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Interesting. Seems like there’s both supply and demand factors? On the supply side, you have smartphones, more mature web tech like Stripe/Shopify/open source libraries and more bandwidth. On the demand side, both a larger and more mature customer base.
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One of the biggest hyped up failures was Webvan. Is the difference caused by smartphones? Seems like it just took time for people to adjust their habits and lifestyles.
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Yeah that was what I was thinking. People weren’t used to shopping online, and the amount of pages required to build a grocery cart must have been painful on dialup.
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Only 40% of the US had internet in 1999, and it was mostly dial up.
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