Peter Zakin
@pzakin
On reflection, kind of interesting the way that automation manages to eliminate network-based moats: Uber -> moat of drivers disappears in a world of autonomous cars. FB/Twitter -> moat of in-network content creators disappears in favor of algorithmic feed and eventually synthetic content.
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Aman Dhesi
@aman
Good observation! Basically human labor has acquisition costs and APIfied labor does not
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Aman Dhesi
@aman
Or in Ben Thomson parlance, aggregation costs
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