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Why tech giants buy startups just to shut them down

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Because competing on actual product quality requires entirely too much effort. Massive conglomerates regularly acquire innovative startups with the explicit goal of immediately terminating their operations, thereby permanently eliminating any threat to their established market dominance.

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