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		carabiner on Dec 17, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: John Carmack Leaves Meta If they are so bad, why are they so successful? Why hasn't anyone disrupted them with superior business practices and a better product?

cmrdporcupine on Dec 17, 2022 [–]

They do get disrupted. All the time. And so then they turn around and buy the companies that disrupted them, and take them apart.

Also they have a firehose of revenue which makes it possible to hire hire hire, push compensation levels up, and suck the air out of any other interesting companies.

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