• FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Now that I think about it I’m not sure why they had to accept investor money at all. I wonder if it would have turned out differently if they had remained 100% privately owned?

    • TheFogan@programming.dev
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      1 hour ago

      Because growth… Without the R&D money, Microsoft or Yahoo, or someone else would have figured out how to do what they do faster/better, waited until google was a forgotten name and then enshittified.