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This Week in Startups · 2025-08-05 · 69 min · 13,033 words

Lina Khan's Figma victory lap, Meta's Superintelligence Team, BYD mega car-carrier video & MORE | E2160

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The goal of consumers getting more for less has been achieved so greatly by these companies that to go and invest in a competitor, sometimes this doesn't make sense. Gmail being free is a really hard price for the industry to compete with. The browsers being free. is an incredibly hard price. That's where the software eventually winds up.

A gigabyte, a terabyte, you know, just massive amounts of free storage for photos. We have gotten to the point where the market has made everything free and cheap for consumers, with the exception of the industries where our government is running them and regulating, over-regulating them, housing, health care, and education. If we really want to point the gun of regulations somewhere, for the love of God, crack the monopolies that these colleges have with accreditation, crack the monopoly on healthcare and insurance and pharma, and crack the crazy regulations that and these companies buying tons of Uh, homes and on housing.

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