but wasn't every enterprising business/ idea was a startup back in day. Startup is a new-era terminology
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No. In the past companies were often started by other companies or assembled by investors.
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all companies were startups at one point.
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That's not true. Some companies are created by other companies, others are assembled by investors.
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the parent was likely a startup at one point. Also there are hybrid cases like Tinder coming out of IAC. It’s a semantics argument.
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homeaway was founded in 2005 and vrbo in 1995?
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and yet neither of those are Airbnb?

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Ah, yes, the classic "linguistically pedantic and intentionally ignoring context" response.
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not to mention Couch Surfing in 2003
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Without companies, companies wouldn't have companied companies.
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some cereal company perhaps ? :)
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everything was a startup at one point. You could say this about anything
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without startups, nothing would happen, since existing companies were once startups too.
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True, however I would say "without entrepreneurs" instead of "without startups"
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and watch the margins where things really begin eg couchsurfing before AirBnb. Numerous examples
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true!
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I don't think so. You need radical thinking to create companies like Airbnb..
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especially true where products cannibalize a past sale. Every EV Toyota sells = one ICE car that they didn't. Not so for Tesla.
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what about investment banking? Is it change or die? Or just something brand new.
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