Imagine we’re touring the great marketplace of ideas, where two bakers set up shop.

One asked, “How can I feed the hungry?”

The other asked, “How can I keep them browsing pastries?”

One built a community.

The other built... a mall.

Guess whose bread still smells warm today?

LinkedIn didn’t lose because it baked bad bread.

It lost because it forgot it was supposed to feed people—

and instead built a cheesy food court nobody asked for.