<story><title>Facebook&apos;s Aggressive Moves on Startups Threaten Innovation</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/facebooks-aggressive-moves-on-startups-threaten-innovation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vladislav</author><text>If Facebook easily replicating that same feature is enough to significantly hurt the smaller competitor, was it really innovation in the first place?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TAForObvReasons</author><text>If you are of the view that ideas are worthless and execution is all that matters, then there is no innovation anymore.  Facebook can out-execute pretty much any small startup if they really wanted to go into a space.</text></comment>
<story><title>Facebook&apos;s Aggressive Moves on Startups Threaten Innovation</title><url>https://www.wired.com/story/facebooks-aggressive-moves-on-startups-threaten-innovation/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vladislav</author><text>If Facebook easily replicating that same feature is enough to significantly hurt the smaller competitor, was it really innovation in the first place?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>r00fus</author><text>I suppose you could have said similar things about Microsoft in the mid-90s when they would vapor-launch a product to wipe out a threat or soften up a buyout.</text></comment>