“The big is beautiful line is coming especially from the large companies (Facebook, Google, …) that are threatened by antitrust and need to justify their scale.”
This sort of talk prompts one obvious, knee-jerk response: It’s simply hypocrisy. When Google and Facebook were start-ups, their executives said start-ups were good. Now that Google and Facebook are huge, their executives say huge companies are good. It’s cynical, if not unexpected.
…all the way up through the 20th century. The best thing you could be in Silicon Valley was a founder, and the best thing a founder could do was supercede those who came before.
The newest generation of companies has not been able to fulfill the latter half of that prophecy.
Because FB and GOOG gobble those startups before they become real threats.