I don't think this is where you were going with your comment, but I'll mention this just because you're somewhat adjacent to a routine mistake in business:
replyUber is a people delivery company, but they've had a lot of bright engineers working for them on their infrastructure and software over the years, and that work has rippled out through the industry.
Amazon (in VMWare's words) is "a company that sells books", and their leadership couldn't accept they were losing to them ("I look at this audience, and I look at VMware and the brand reputation we have in the enterprise, and I find it really hard to believe that we cannot collectively beat a company that sells books.").
And Google is the ad factory.
replyDoubleclick buying google's brand was the smartest business move ever.
replyconsider this as stolen as all the gemini training data
replyIt's mostly a conglomerate nowadays (e.g the list of subsidiaries in Wikipedia is huge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meituan).
replyIn the same way than Amazon spin-up AWS, they are quite leveraging their tech experience.
When do we get our first DoorDash-trained model? </sarc>
replyThe thing that stood out for me about Meituan was that their power bank rental gizmos were everywhere in China, and people would rather rent a power bank than own and carry one around because of how convenient it is.
replyPeople buy millions of powerbanks in China.
replyAnd the group owning Lidl built STACKIT.
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