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If you can make 30% returns over here in social networking, why spend billions of dollars digging holes in the ground for 5% returns?

Because a market with 30% returns is going to attract a lot more competition than one with 5%. Look at Jeff Bezos's philosophy. He's deliberately attacked a very well established, low-margin business and he's made Amazon extremely successful at it.



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