Big Tech at the End of History - by Byrne Hobart - The Diff

Subscribe now to receive paywalled issues, read the archives, and join today’s subscriber call at 2pm Eastern, where we’ll be discussing The End of History and more. This is the once-a-week free edition of The Diff, the newsletter about inflections in finance and technology. The free edition goes out to 14,867 subscribers, up 250 week-over-week. In this issue: A few weeks ago, I gave a talk to a group of employees at a large tech company.[1] Topic: parallels between how tech companies grow and how countries go from poor to rich. The two processes have some interesting similarities: The original point of that model was to say: this has happened before, just on a slower timescale. Growth starts out scalable and apolitical, but naturally slows over time. In a mature economy, wages are high, growth is low, the obvious high-return investments have all been picked over, and life is comfortable, boring, and more driven by politics than technological advances. So, too, at mature tech companies

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