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foxglacieryesterday at 8:19 AM1 replyview on HN

You'd have thought the same about all the big tech companies when they were startups. Yet now they're making piles of money and contributing to America's overall economic success.


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OtomotOyesterday at 8:23 AM

Back then the landscape was a different one.

Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon all were founded years or decades before Git was created and money had a different value back then. (Inflation)

For every unicorn there are tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands dead horses...

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