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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 w
by 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 agoIt 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.