I&#x27;m interested to see how history treats these first few decades of our commercial internet. We have VCs looking for home runs funding companies that invest thousands or millions of man-hours building products that get scuttled and lost forever. While this may be the very best way for wealthy VCs to get even more wealthy I&#x27;m sometimes nostalgic for the years of human effort wasted when things shut down. I&#x27;m not one to bemoan our best minds working on &quot;trivial&quot; consumer products. If you&#x27;re building something people want, that&#x27;s noble enough for me. But I wonder what the internet would look like if we didn&#x27;t have a land-grab mentality and instead built companies more slowly and sustainably.