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You should expect that the platform you’re building on top of to do something that’s not in your interest. If you’re going to stay on top of that platform forever you might wake up one day to find that the owner of the platform is competing with you and that sucks.

Fred Wilson, Partner, Union Square Ventures, via GigaOm: Fred Wilson to devs: Expect platform owners to work against you.