Dave Morin: US antitrust slowed Microsoft to "the crawl of the DMV"
Dave Morin · #80: More or Less Holiday Special Pt. 2 (Crypto and Antitrust) · More or Less Podcast · Jan 4, 2025 · at 21:58
Dave Morin, partner at Offline Ventures and former Facebook executive, compares proposed antitrust enforcement against Google to Microsoft's federal antitrust case in the late 1990s and 2000s.
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“So it's almost like the government operating system showed up inside of Microsoft and slowed it down to like the crawl of the DMV for like 10 years, right? Microsoft, like after the, you know, time period was up, I don't remember how long it was, just like slingshot it back to the number one most valuable company in the world, like with a vengeance, right?”
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