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> That is to say that I don't believe anymore in pure software businesses.

Does that mean you don't believe in company specialization?

Very few companies can afford to develop and maintain a cutting-edge database. Google, for example, can. But one rung down, and the answer is "no". For example, Kafka began at LinkedIn. The team that developed Kafka at LinkedIn ended up leaving to form Confluent, in order to build it out.




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