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Yeah, but they created a moat and became sticky. Netflix knew they were a middleman too so they started to produce their own content years before the streaming wars. I worked for one near the border that bought American industrial parts and sold it to Mexican factories. I helped build their quoting and ERP software, but the boss wanted to build a platform for him and his competition to try to become sticky and build a moat. Middlemen should always be finding ways to stay in the process.



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