Re:Y Combinator Company List
by adventured on Friday November 10, 2017 @05:19AM
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Being in vogue has little to do with being successful in business.
If being in vogue determined much, Oracle wouldn't be doing $37 billion in sales. Windows wouldn't have existed past XP. And Python would have disappeared years ago when its popularity was particularly low, long before its most recent revival.
What's in vogue about Priceline.com? Further, what's in vogue about what they do?
Google search is in vogue? No, it's boring and very much out of vogue. It's about as exciting as the plumbing in your house or the water company. It's merely a hundred billion dollar business though.
Online auctions - a stagnant ~20 year old business - aren't in vogue? Don't tell eBay's $2 billion per year profit business.
And so on. The majority of all tech and the majority of all businesses in existence, would not be considered fashionable in any regard.
If being in vogue determined much, Oracle wouldn't be doing $37 billion in sales. Windows wouldn't have existed past XP. And Python would have disappeared years ago when its popularity was particularly low, long before its most recent revival.
What's in vogue about Priceline.com? Further, what's in vogue about what they do?
Google search is in vogue? No, it's boring and very much out of vogue. It's about as exciting as the plumbing in your house or the water company. It's merely a hundred billion dollar business though.
Online auctions - a stagnant ~20 year old business - aren't in vogue? Don't tell eBay's $2 billion per year profit business.
And so on. The majority of all tech and the majority of all businesses in existence, would not be considered fashionable in any regard.