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Didn't Zuck take the idea for Facebook from someone else and then run with it?

• niuzeta 9y ago
  It's a popular story, but out of all gripes you have against Zuck it's perhaps the least relevant. Especially so in HN, where the daily mantra is "the idea is worthless but the execution is". There are many valid criticisms against Zuck, and I don't think this one quite holds value as much as the others.
  • crpatino 9y ago
    It is one thing to get an idea from someone else and beat them with a superior implementation. It's a whole different thing to partner with said someone else to implement their idea, then sabotage the project from the inside while simultaneously working on your own, competing, implementation. The fact that those guys sued FB and got an extremely generous settlement tells everything you need to know about the likeliness of there being grounds for the claim. Truth be told, they won the lottery by being zucked, there's no way in Heaven or Hell they would have managed to build their own idea into such a success to get that kind of exit.
• gowld 9y ago
  No. The "idea" was already quite old. He scammed the scammers: he stole the company from the "idea guys" who tried to hire a naive nerd to build a company for them and hand it over.
  • freejulian 9y ago
    Maybe he should have built his own platform then instead without accepting payment from the “idea guys” to build it for them.
  • neuromantik8086 9y ago
    ConnectU wasn't even supposed to be a social network originally, but rather a dating site. You can still see the original mockups of it on archive.org, and it was honestly quite crappy.