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Everyone Wants To Be Twitter And Hulu

The article was alright, but I liked this quote from the comments:

Is there any analogy to this from any previous time period?
Twenty years ago, if you wanted to be successful in, say, the sneaker
industry, wouldn't you ask "what is Nike doing right?" instead of "what
is that new, kinda trendy, but wildly unprofitable and perhaps
unsustainable sneaker startup down the block doing right?"

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