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What Does David Heinemeier Hansson Really Think Of The Monopolistic Behavior In Tech
We are living through an era where a small handful of big tech companies are exerting a completely undue amount of power over the internet, over discourse, over all sorts of things. And that’s something we should try to recoil from and, at least learn from.
You get venture capital to the tune of half a billion dollars because you tell a compelling, extremely rapid, exponential growth story, but that desire to own the space does not lead to anything good, and only leaves the consumer with an illusion of choice.
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