• psud@aussie.zone
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      8 hours ago

      Amazon: people like books; people like next day delivery of stuff; people and companies like making stuff and running stuff in Amazon web services

      Minecraft: Marcus Persson owned the game studio (and wrote quite a bit of the game) that made Minecraft, lots of people like it, Microsoft was willing to buy it for billions

      Kiran Mazumdan-Shaw made beer, people like beer. They then used beer making processes to make biotech medicines - people like being alive and will pay a lot to stay alive, or even just a bit healthier

    • iii@mander.xyz
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      1 day ago

      It’s not an elementary question.

      Best I can guess is: plenty of people, plenty of reasons. Which is a stupid answer.