Andy Weissman of USV posted about the unbundling of all things web--apps become APIs, and ... " that education is being unbundled into its component parts: content, teachers, credentials, community, physical campus, mentors, hiring and network." I weighed in... Hasn't Google become more like AOL in some senses? Plus, hangouts, docs, email, etc. It seems inevitable for the niche gorilla to continue to add new products and more niches, becoming an aggregator like the one they might have initially displaced. Interesting that Twitter has not taken that approach. Facebook has. LinkedIn has, though perhaps more naturally and narrower than Google. Stack has (hi joel), in very natural and sensible ways. And Andy asked... that's interesting - is the tendency of the unbundler to always try to re-bundle? ...so I thought about it some more... The tendency is toward revenue growth, which leads to adding products or features that drive revenue toward t
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