Three MIT students in their early 20s created a technology that could draft predictive responses to emails. In May 2018, they proceeded to raise funds for their startup – EasyEmail. Around the same time, Google held its annual conference in which it announced a feature similar to that of EasyEmail. The startup’s founder, Filip Twarowski, expressed his shock, fearing that competing with Google would scare off venture capitalists. The history of entrepreneurship is full of stories in which more prominent corporations try to squash young companies by copying them. Or, they acquire them completely to eliminate a threat. In the case
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