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The history of technology focused companies shows that monopolies never last. Eventually the monopolist always misses a disruptive innovation and a startup competitor eats their lunch. No one cares now that IBM used to have a (near) monopoly on mainframes.

Some other slower moving industries are more conducive to lasting monopolies.



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