Let’s say you figure out how to run a company with 100M customers with only five employees.
What stops me from getting together a few friends and stealing your business model?
At some point you have to add value just to keep the wolves at bay.
What stops me from getting together a few friends and stealing your business model?
At some point you have to add value just to keep the wolves at bay.
I'd like you to read this and contemplate.
http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/unix-koans/ten-thousand.htm...
If you didn't bother reading and contemplating, here's the gist:
There is no wolf to fear. We are all finite beings with finite time and resources. You 'stealing' his hypothetical business model doesn't really accomplish anything except tie up your resources retracing his steps. You would be the fool reimplementing the pipe.
Now if you are the type of person who reduces life down to only pursuing the almighty dollar rather than trying to solve difficult extant problems... Well... Maybe that would be worth it to you. Even then though, he has already captured his audience, and he'll likely have a reputation advantage over your copy.
Anywho. Food for thought.
That's not how it works. I'm pretty sure you and I could write a Snapchat clone in a weekend. This doesn't imply we'll ever reach 100M users.