Seems as though things take off regardless of whether they’re open/closed if there’s good product market fit. Open/Closed seems to matter more in terms of whether platforms can achieve/maintain scale, but even then it seems like it’s a required attribute. See examples of wildly successful clo...

Good Q. People can choose to build closed source tools, distribute them organically and incrementally improve. Perhaps a better way to frame it would be to have a word that summarizes the following: fiat VC funded obscure growth demons from hell that scrape everyone's personal data to sell to th...

Of course it's overly reductive. This is a short note, not a book. The point is that closed for-profit entities eventually die. Open protocols have the chance of immortality.