As is often repeated around the tech industry, &quot;Early = wrong&quot;.  Knowing that mobile became a huge hit in 2010 doesn&#x27;t really help the folks writing apps for NewtonScript in 1992 or Palm in 2000.  WebTV was a specific Microsoft product (that was gonna be huge, it was the next information superhighway!) - it was actually a set-top box more like GoogleTV or AppleTV - and Microsoft benefitted not a bit from YouTube or Netflix&#x27;s success.  If you got the &quot;casual games&quot; part right but missed the &quot;mobile&quot; part, you ended up like Slide, Newgrounds, or Kongregate, all of which are in decline now, usually bought for 2x invested capital or so.