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Google is known to be one of them, when it comes to her attempt to rip FB apart They did and they failed mainly because Zuckerberg took the call to thwart them

by deepGem 10y ago

Google is known to be one of them, when it comes to her attempt to rip FB apart They did and they failed mainly because Zuckerberg took the call to thwart them at any cost, one of the very famous 'lockdown modes'. http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/how-mark-zuckerberg-led-facebooks-war-to-crush-google-plus http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/how-mark-zuckerberg-l... This was then. Imagine how Facebook will respond to any threat now. The tenor and the impact of their response is evident in the Stories rollout. One might argue, in favour of Snapchat that this is a one-off situation and that Facebook will succumb to the same organisational stasis that big corporations fall into. Facebook falling into stasis doesn't seem likely. If someone has viewpoints to the contrary I'm all ears. Snapchat will have a real tough time fighting Facebook.

yeukhon 10y ago
Right, and that's how I would respond as a CEO. What choice does he have? Let Snapchat grow and Facebook and Instagram failing to attract younger users? But back to my point. Even Google couldn't win Facebook with all that cash flow. But is size the real reason? No. It's the execution that matters. The thing I hear a lot about Google is that there could be multiple version of the same "product" competing for final launch, Google+ was like that. In the end I feel that's a bit of a hackathon-ish competition. Lots of defects, unclear product vision and perhaps low morale. Anyway, small company can still win. There are many examples of that out there.
losteverything 10y ago
<At Facebook, even then and certainly later, you got along by going along, and everyone sacrificing his or her entire life for the cause was as much about self-sacrifice and team building as it was an actual measure of your productivity. Thanks for sharing this. A quote I won't forget. Seems unreal, really.

by deepGem 10y ago

yeukhon 10y ago

Right, and that's how I would respond as a CEO. What choice does he have? Let Snapchat grow and Facebook and Instagram failing to attract younger users? But back to my point. Even Google couldn't win Facebook with all that cash flow. But is size the real reason? No. It's the execution that matters. The thing I hear a lot about Google is that there could be multiple version of the same "product" competing for final launch, Google+ was like that. In the end I feel that's a bit of a hackathon-ish competition. Lots of defects, unclear product vision and perhaps low morale. Anyway, small company can still win. There are many examples of that out there.

losteverything 10y ago

<At Facebook, even then and certainly later, you got along by going along, and everyone sacrificing his or her entire life for the cause was as much about self-sacrifice and team building as it was an actual measure of your productivity. Thanks for sharing this. A quote I won't forget. Seems unreal, really.