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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 May 2016
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      1/ Hypothesis: there are technologies so basic that they serve as prequels to economic organization and utility vs. private type debates

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      2/ Possible examples: Craigslist, Twitter, Unix shell. One maybe: Wikipedia. They are all sui generis and defy analysis within categories

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      3/ They are destined neither for commodity status as private sector technologies, nor for utility status as public services.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 May 2016
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      4/ What they do instead is *create* frontier land, sparking land-grab economic races.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 May 2016
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      5/ Twitter "running a clown car into a gold mine" is closer to Columbus (yeah yeah) discovering America than a company executing on an idea

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      6/ Unix shell is a more subtle example, but I mean it in the sense of "every shell command becomes a unicorn business" (who said that? PG?)

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 May 2016
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      7/ One reason these entities "fail" as both business and utility entities is that they discover territories too vast for one entity to own

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      8/ Pattern already clear with Craigslist: it doesn't get "disrupted". Instead companies like AirBnB bite off chunks small enough for 1 corp

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      9/ Twitter "failing" to own the revolutions it obviously caused (messaging, bots) isn't a failure really if viewed that way.

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    10. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 May 2016
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      10/ People who think Slack, Snapchat etc. have "stolen" Twitter's business are both right and wrong. Right because it's prima facie true...

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 May 2016
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      11/ Wrong because it's very incomplete. There's like 10-15 Slack/Snapchat sized businesses left to carve out of the "Twitter continent"

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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 4 May 2016
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          12/ Examples: Nobody has "pulled a Slack" on "political revolutions" product that's inside Twitter, or the "nascent community" product

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          13/ Proposed lifecycle for such sector squatting precorps, which I will call Supernovas

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