We saw the labor market in general, but specifically, the freelancing market, which is even to this day very old-fashioned. It’s based on word-of-mouth recommendations from friends. You meet the freelancer at Starbucks. It’s like a date, right? It takes a lot of time and then you need to start negotiating a deal, figuring out if you want to work to... See more

I could keep going and compare Slack and Teams feature for feature, but no one disagrees that Slack is a better product (unless your company does everything in Office, in which case Teams’ tighter integration with its own products is an advantage).

Google was the endpoint of this process: It may represent open systems and leveled architecture, but with superb irony and strategic brilliance it came to almost completely control that openness. It's difficult to imagine another industry so thoroughly subservient to one player. In the Google model, there is one distributor of movies, which also ow... See more