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super stoked for @henri and the privy team but it makes you wonder 

who tf is going to ever unseat the existing infrastructure behemoths?

is this just what the internet is now?

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super stoked for @henri and the privy team but it makes you wonder 

who tf is going to ever unseat the existing infrastructure behemoths?

is this just what the internet is now?

https://privy.io/blog/announcing-our-acquisition-by-stripe

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I feel that the more regulatory frameworks become just normalized is when we see new small teams become unicorns and have no real incentive to sell if it’s not network or relationship based. 

Time will tell though. Agreed that right now the best outcomes are still nice, privy team works hard.

Yea def no shade I want founders to win, we just obv keep the status quo internet indefinitely if this is the majority “best outcome”

It’s the internet right now. 

Couple unicorns that don’t get acquired though (no shade at all to privy congrats on the hard work) and it’s a new paradigm.

we may not have "it" yet. or we might and will only know it in retrospect. hard to tell.

I hope so

but we’re gonna need something that makes “it’s different this time” true just like we had

computer, the internet, and mobile 

to make “it actually is different” real

is it crypto? Doesn’t feel like it unfortunately 

is it ai? Not for startups apparently

so what will it be?

looking back at history, it was hard to see who'd unseat behemoths of the past. but unseated they were.

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New system will pop up making them irrelevant. Let them enjoy this for now 🤘

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We don’t have to.  But it’s a hard road.

I feel you.  I am uneasy about Stripe owning all the easy-to-use crypto infra.

I guess it’s the VC game.

Rarely do companies deviate from Cartman's 4 point plan

It’s starting to feel like the internet of modular monopolies. Stripe, Cloudflare, Apple, OpenAI… pick your flavor

Stripe is pretty slow moving and still very new to the crypto space. A window is open to unseat them but they’re probably gonna pull a facebook and buy everyone who tries to

Only for now? Subject to change as understanding can grow with time. The sharing, especially of potential gains and losses, is an issue difficult to overcome for many.