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woooooo on July 31, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Vibe code is legacy code

I think "innovativeness" is massively overrated compared to network effects and consolidation.

Spotify is European. Any innovative SV companies going to unseat them with sheer pluckiness? Same goes for Meta or Amazon going the other way.

China and to some degree Russia have their own ecosystems due to anti-innovative barriers they put up.

jjani on July 31, 2025 [–]

> China and to some degree Russia have their own ecosystems due to anti-innovative barriers they put up.

You can add Korea to this list.

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