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I'd love to see bloated tech companies start dropping like flies. It'd leave such huge holes in the market that just beg for someone to come in and fill them with a lean startup.

I've seen a lot of this attitude lately, so I want to coin a term: startupfreude!

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Kind of loses its punch in German since that would only mean "startup joy".

Loses its punch, maybe, but it still makes sense, no? After all the potential failure of the incumbents is a "startup's joy"?

Would the correct German (okay, German/English pidgin) be "Schadenstartup"?

"Schaden" is roughly "harm". "Freude" is just "joy". So, no, Schadenstartup doesn't make much more sense.

I tried to think of a phrasing that would work for the idea, but nothing came to mind with a similar ring to it. In kind of faux German, Startupschadenfreude, being sure to pronouce "Startup" as "Schtartup" might be amusing. :-)

Startenfreude.

But make sure you pronounce it as "Schtartenfreude".

No, that just means "damage startup."

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