How Big Tech got so big: hundreds of acquisitions
one thing everyone keeps forgetting about is mindshare and talent monopoly these companies have.<p>bunch of startups using react, k8s because FB etc use them. how is this bad, well you they can change API's or introduce new features into these tools.<p>Forcing companies who're using these tools to play catch up. instead of developing features.<p>plenty of smart engineers that would be founders are reduced to being cogs in a system. countless examples even here on HN where people question, why work on something interesting eg in the Lichess thread instead of FAANG and get the massive salary.<p>to me that's the most dangerous form of monopoly there could be.