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Re:Goodreads was the future of book reviews. Then Amazon bou... by ClumsyPilot on Monday July 03, 2023 @07:23PM (#36580102)
> If the only possible outcomes are "beat Amazon" and "fail hard",

If you start a car company, are your only two options 'beat Wolkwagen" and fail hard? How many car companies do we have?

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Re:Goodreads was the future of book reviews. Then Amazon bou... by cwp on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @04:44AM (#36583939)
No, because M&A isn't banned. I don't know how many car companies we have, but I do notice that there are a bunch of new ones recently. Just off the top of my head: Tesla, Lucid, Rivian, Cruise.
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