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I think the issue is that some people think that $2,000,000,000 USD and 8 years should be able to produce a better first product.

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2b is a drop in the bucket compared to other companies like Microsoft and Apple. They’re not just building a headset, but the software to run it and funding both 1st and 3rd party content.

$2.3 billion dollars is an almost incomprehensible amount of money.

Amazon raised total of $108 million before its IPO.

Google raised less than $50 million before its IPO.

Facebook raised $2.3 billion before the IPO, and most of it was after it became a world-wide phenomena.

None of those companies are building a full stack computing platform.

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