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Ideas themselves are not worth much. I can sit down and list at least a 100 plausible sounding ideas. You also underestimate the difficulty of turning an idea

Ideas themselves are not worth much. I can sit down and list at least a 100 plausible sounding ideas. You also underestimate the difficulty of turning an idea into a product. Writing code to build an app or a website is only the first step, getting engaged users and growing is far more difficult. > By now they have all the resources and flexibility (hundreds of engineers only busy at exploring ideas) FB employees are certainly not "only busy exploring ideas", I don't know where you got that idea from. In case FB were to do this, it would attract the US Government's attention for monopolistic practices. As opposed to "stealing" your idea, FB (and other large companies) would be more interested in aqui-hiring a successful startup. So yeah, you certainly don't need to be worried about FB stealing your idea. Not convinced yet? Look at the startup ecosystem, how often do you come across one of the large companies stealing a startup's idea? I can't think of many.

MrBra 9y ago
> FB employees are certainly not "only busy exploring ideas", I don't know where you got that idea from. Meaning that they have all resources and flexible mindset/approach (agile) to play with interesting ideas and iterate on them quickly! This was not a thing time ago... Nowadays you see companies as big as Microsoft being swiftly responsive to the open source ecosystem and to ie. Electron apps, and releasing Visual Studio Code to tackle that slice of the cake! In that sense. Also please, read again my first sentence :)
narrowrail 9y ago
>In case FB were to do this, it would attract the US Government's attention for monopolistic practices. I think this is a bit naive. Private companies are allowed to compete in the marketplace no matter how big they are. Have you noticed that FB has been systematically implementing most of Snap's features over the last year?
- MrBra 9y ago
  Exactly.

MrBra 9y ago

> FB employees are certainly not "only busy exploring ideas", I don't know where you got that idea from. Meaning that they have all resources and flexible mindset/approach (agile) to play with interesting ideas and iterate on them quickly! This was not a thing time ago... Nowadays you see companies as big as Microsoft being swiftly responsive to the open source ecosystem and to ie. Electron apps, and releasing Visual Studio Code to tackle that slice of the cake! In that sense. Also please, read again my first sentence :)

narrowrail 9y ago

>In case FB were to do this, it would attract the US Government's attention for monopolistic practices. I think this is a bit naive. Private companies are allowed to compete in the marketplace no matter how big they are. Have you noticed that FB has been systematically implementing most of Snap's features over the last year?

MrBra 9y ago
Exactly.