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True, they didn't fold per se, but they likely could have held their own against MySpace and Facebook. They just got bought out a few months ago for $40 millio
by byoung2 16y ago
True, they didn't fold per se, but they likely could have held their own against MySpace and Facebook. They just got bought out a few months ago for $40 million, when they could have had a billion dollar valuation like Facebook or a half-billion dollar buyout like MySpace.
Maybe if they had thought about scaling from the very beginning (like so many startups supposedly waste time doing), they would have had a plan in place to address it without having to bring it up at board meetings.
- kragen 16y agoThey could have held their own against MySpace and Facebook if they'd been focused on solving actual technical problems and adding features people wanted to use, instead of solving theoretical technical problems. When Friendster finally hired Joyce Park to lead a reimplementation of the site (in PHP instead of Java) there was so much conflict over this inside the company that they fired her immediately after she finished, ostensibly for blogging. Imagine what Friendster could have done if user-focused, practical people like Joyce were honored and listened to, instead of tossed out like trash. (I know Joyce. I'd even say she's a friend of mine, and I hope she'd agree.)