How Big Tech got so big: hundreds of acquisitions
one thing everyone keeps forgetting about is mindshare and talent monopoly these companies have.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.Forcing companies who're using these tools to play catch up. instead of developing features.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.to me that's the most dangerous form of monopoly there could be.