Cory Doctorow

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What Now? with Trevor Noah · Cory Doctorow: You Bought it, They Break It · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

And there was a period where their stock gains were high.

And I don't know whether his investors got out or when he got out.

But Yahoo was destroyed by this string of acquisitions.

Like Yahoo had a business and they turned it into an acquisition factory.

And that's what killed them.

That did nothing.

That just destroyed business after business.

In part, because when you buy all the competitors, you put them under one roof, then they fight with each other.

So, yeah.

So, I mean, Brandeis called this the curse of bigness.

He says that when firms get too big, they start fighting with each other.

The locus of competition moves from firms external to the firm, right?

So, you're like, I want Google to be better than the other search engines.

And then it becomes divisions in Google saying, I want my division to do better.

That's right.

And so it's kind of like an autoimmune disorder, right?

You have these kind of princelings who are like, you know, I want to, especially like, you know, the big Hollywood firms, big studios, right?

They've got like VPs, presidents, VPs, or no, it's like directors, VPs, SVPs, EVPs, and presidents.

And each one is like an order of magnitude richer than the other ones.

So like the career earning opportunities to go from one tier to the other are in the millions or tens of millions.

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