The Googles of the world, they are the Custer of the modern world. We are the Sioux nation,” Time Warner Inc. Chief Executive Richard Parsons said, referring to the Civil War American general George Custer who was defeated by Native Americans in a battle dubbed “Custer’s Last Stand”.
I don’t think that analogy means what you think it means. Custer was an idiot for fighting that battle. You’ll notice that the rest of the army didn’t have his problems and ended up winning that war.
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