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Just make something good and useful and don’t kill it and you will be exceeding Google in so many areas. Think marathon, not sprint.

Yeah this is a good point, if you have a product with good support, that's one way you can out compete them.

But don't be too successful, or you'll be copied by them.

" Think marathon, not sprint."

I've seen this before as "Think long-term, not short-term". Sometimes it can be true.