These companies are not "tech" companies in my book any more than the Sears catalog was a "tech" innovation.
They are normal business that happen to be enabled by technology, but the technological challenges are not new or to be frank uncommonly challenging.
Because we're I assume mostly coders, we think they are differentiated by tech, almost everything else (marketing, sales, customer service) is likely more important.
Bad technology could certainly kill a platform, but excellent tech won't save it, and a mediocre implementation is good enough.
They are normal business that happen to be enabled by technology, but the technological challenges are not new or to be frank uncommonly challenging.
Because we're I assume mostly coders, we think they are differentiated by tech, almost everything else (marketing, sales, customer service) is likely more important.
Bad technology could certainly kill a platform, but excellent tech won't save it, and a mediocre implementation is good enough.