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I've been in the tech industry a quarter century, I've never heard this "pretty common saying" before, and most importantly I don't think it makes any sense. If anything, tech excels at disruption, where smaller competitors and new ideas are able to solve problems where "just throwing money at it" has failed.

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I challenge you to name a tech unicorn who's biggest advantage wasn't the ability to hemorrhage money over a period of time that would've killed any normal business stone dead.

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> I don't think it makes any sense

> tech excels at disruption, where smaller competitors and new ideas are able to solve problems where "just throwing money at it" has failed

I don't think you understand the saying then, because this is exactly its point.

D'oh, I fail at reading comprehension - I read the "can" as "can't" for some reason. Dunce cap for me.

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