The meta versus coming

It's here Microsoft buys

Activision Blizzard for $69 billion in cash. Can you imagine having $69 billion in cash on your balance sheet?

Or being able to part with it and still be a healthy company. So this again is the concern

And it's been happening in a tech for years and years and years like you just have this mega consolidation happening

Trillion dollar companies if I started a new tech startup and this I say hey, I'm gonna be the next Google like

Yeah, I'm not out of the room, but if you say hey Google's gonna buy me for a hundred million be like great idea

Yeah, I'm listening. I'm listening and then by the way if you fail

Google buys you for tens of millions just just for the talent at the time. Yes. Yeah, so somebody worked one of those

Yeah, you gotta job at Google. It's like the show Silicon Valley where you know like you reach a certain scale is it like

You know, it becomes arbitrary

You're playing with what Tim O'Reilly calls super money

and so

Like it's almost impossible to compete with super money that they the laws of business physics stop applying

I'm a former you know small private company operator like I'm and you know this about me

I'm like I'm really acutely attuned to the laws of business physics, you know, it's like hey, we got a like you know

Like watch what we spend and try and grow into it and do all the stuff, but like after you achieve

Orbit or liftoff then like none of that stuff applies to you anymore

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