Patent protection would take years to be approved. Even if it is approved, how they can prevent their ideas being stolen during the application.
Also, ideas are often not worthy. Big tech can come up better solution better execution so how can one protect their ideas ?
For example, in the early stage of youtube, big tech have all the resources to recreate a similar platform but why didnt they do that ? If youtube was not just popular at that time, will their ideas silently stolen by big giant ?
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You target a niche. And sell to that before people realize how big the opportunity is. By the time they do, you’re the incumbent in your niche. There are many many status being launched all the time. Big tech companies can’t change their roadmap for every thing that appears. They have to speak to a wider audience, have more polished features than startups, and worry about a lot more liability. So for them copying something is a lot more work than for the startup to implement it. If they see an idea that is actually interesting it makes more sense to invest in the startup so they can let the technology and market be vetted and then purchase the IP if it makes sense.
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