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There's another set of large players who have sucked all of the air out of what could have otherwise been thriving, competitive categories with many players. Google with search, Amazon with eCommerce, Facebook with social. Yes there are maybe 1-2 counterpoints in each of these spaces, but they've largely been successful at leaving a lot of would be entrepreneurs avoiding these huge spaces because they know they can't compete.



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