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Tyson Foods, Cargill, JBS, and National Beef controls roughly 85% of the U.S. beef market

CVS Caremark, Express Scripts, and OptumRx manage over 80% of all prescriptions in the U.S

Amazon buys 50% of all books.

These examples are even more extreme than at least 3 major clouds present in the US buying hardware.



The parent comment specified a company that has never turned a profit cornering the entire market.


Not even sure which company are they referring to. I assumed Amazon or Google or Microsoft or Oracle, but all of them have turned profit.

I don't think OpenAI purchase even comes even close to any of these.


Well, you think wrong. OpenAI is the one that pre-hired 40% of the world's memory fab capacity.

And if you are going to protest with the common "OpenAI doesn't even build datacenters themselves!", yes, they don't, and it's a complete non-sequitur.




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