Part II: Open Beats Closed Almost Every Time, Monetizing Open Is the Hard Part, and Why Metriport's $26M Series A Is a Bet on Becoming the Open Patient Context Layer for Healthcare AI

AOL had 26.5M paying subscribers. Encarta had licensed content and a real editorial staff. Enterprise blockchain had billions in institutional backing. Open beat all of them anyway. Here is why that pattern matters for healthcare AI right now.

TCP/IP produced zero dollars for CERN. Wikipedia runs on a budget smaller than a mid-sized software company’s ma…