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I was about to say the same, but it’s not exactly the same. You are free to build anything, but using existing stack. Not pickup new stack and rewrite something that’s not even broken.

That said, probably more often than not, there’s an actual value in it.

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I think reality is more serendipitous, ny view is that if you have hardworking creativy people working on side projects sometimes magic happens.

For example: Android was a completely diferent tech stack from google.

Android was bought in though.

I heard in a lecture of Blitzscaling with Eric Schmidt that google founders got the Google Chrome and Android projects running inside google without him knowing the real breath and intentions of the projects.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcRxFRgNpns

The main difference could be that google has loads of cash to burn trying things out. I don't know their history 100% but suspect they were pretty strict with standards when they were a small start up.

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