Brendan Eich: belief

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…Can you imagine the default switching from sign in with your Google account to authenticate with your in-browser wallet? There's just no way. It really is hard for Google to innovate. They're just a big company. These big companies have their own problems, not just the innovator's dilemma, but at least that much. I just don't think they're going to be a huge threat, but they could use strong-arm tactics to hurt us for sure—all the bigs could. Then there's our own execution risk and our own competition with the growing new wave of privacy products where I think we have to just compete. Competition is good. We learn from each other. There's a marketing component as you grow across the chasm where you're trying to convince people who don't know, again, a search engine from a browser that your product is more private, it is faster, it's more trustworthy, and it's got other good properties. Who do you consider your competitors? Would it be like Square/Block or MetaMask?…

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