5 ms·

Totally upsupported supposition - maybe because Zuck basically is in the same age bracket as a lot of the population on here, whereas Larry and Sergey are a bit

by Jgrubb 11y ago

Totally upsupported supposition - maybe because Zuck basically is in the same age bracket as a lot of the population on here, whereas Larry and Sergey are a bit older?

hanspeter 11y ago
Could be. Another difference is how they came to success. Zuckerberg solved an "easy" problem building a social network web app whereas the Google founders solved a "hard" problem building search engine algorithms.
- sparkzilla 11y ago
  He didn't solve any problem. He stole the Winklevosses work.
  - Jgrubb 11y ago
    I was thinking about this on the way home. Regardless of what has become of Google they started off with "don't be evil", whereas Facebook has basically been "by any means necessary" from day 1.
  - hanspeter 11y ago
    The Winklevosses didn't do any work. They wanted someone to build them a dating site for Harvard students. He was an asshole in their business relationship and should have stopped working with them the minute he was inspired to create Facebook. But he didn't steal anything that belonged to them. They would not have succeeded with their original idea even if they found a developer to do all the work for them.
    - sparkzilla 11y ago
      The Winklevosses already had a substantial part of the project done, and it was more than a dating site. In fact, Zuckerberg copied the Winklevosses feature to connect people. In the absence of competition it seems likely that the Winklevosses product would have been successful. Zuckerberg admits they were well known on campus and would have promoted the site well. The key determining factor in the success of Facebook was not the quality of the software, or even its features, but that it was first social network introduced to the closed Harvard internal market. http://newslines.org/mark-zuckerberg/?order=ASC http://newslines.org/mark-zuckerberg/?order=ASC
deleted 11y ago
[deleted]

by Jgrubb 11y ago

Totally upsupported supposition - maybe because Zuck basically is in the same age bracket as a lot of the population on here, whereas Larry and Sergey are a bit older?

hanspeter 11y ago

Could be. Another difference is how they came to success. Zuckerberg solved an "easy" problem building a social network web app whereas the Google founders solved a "hard" problem building search engine algorithms.

sparkzilla 11y ago
He didn't solve any problem. He stole the Winklevosses work.
- Jgrubb 11y ago
  I was thinking about this on the way home. Regardless of what has become of Google they started off with "don't be evil", whereas Facebook has basically been "by any means necessary" from day 1.
- hanspeter 11y ago
  The Winklevosses didn't do any work. They wanted someone to build them a dating site for Harvard students. He was an asshole in their business relationship and should have stopped working with them the minute he was inspired to create Facebook. But he didn't steal anything that belonged to them. They would not have succeeded with their original idea even if they found a developer to do all the work for them.
  - sparkzilla 11y ago
    The Winklevosses already had a substantial part of the project done, and it was more than a dating site. In fact, Zuckerberg copied the Winklevosses feature to connect people. In the absence of competition it seems likely that the Winklevosses product would have been successful. Zuckerberg admits they were well known on campus and would have promoted the site well. The key determining factor in the success of Facebook was not the quality of the software, or even its features, but that it was first social network introduced to the closed Harvard internal market. http://newslines.org/mark-zuckerberg/?order=ASC http://newslines.org/mark-zuckerberg/?order=ASC

deleted 11y ago

[deleted]