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It sounds like this trend is exactly what Facebook wants. They buy some software (and its people) and mold it to their specifications whether or not it costs th
by acconrad 8y ago
It sounds like this trend is exactly what Facebook wants. They buy some software (and its people) and mold it to their specifications whether or not it costs that team its most senior management/visionaries.
The more interesting thing will be to see what happens when all of these ex-CEOs have left and how Facebook has managed to maintain all of these acquisitions without the key leaders of each division.
- the_common_man 8y agoIn fairness, this is also what the founders want. They got their pay day and after sometime of golden handcuffs, they get their freedom.
- lalos 8y agoIt's more of Thiel influence of 'build a cult' on Zuckerberg and also his inability to listen from other respectable figures for their opinions. I got that vibe from the article of the Whatsapp founders. Seems that Zuckerberg has his mind set on an idea and will shut down any other opinion. Troubling for investors, it's never good to have a monoculture or one-sided opinions and it doesn't look good to have smart people (and proven successful) jump ship at this rate.
- illiac_1962 8y agoSounds like the upper management circle in Facebook is running off aquired executives, not nesseaarily zuck. Kind of hints at a toxic culture.
- SirensOfTitan 8y agoMy feeling was that FB’s desire to monetize acquired properties has put off a lot of acquired execs.
- logrott 8y agoIt's really Zuck. He hires management between the co-founders as a diversion.
- billylindeman 8y agowho says its not good? worked for apple for many years.
- wetpaws 8y agoCults work until they don't.
- mbroncano 8y agoI can name a few that are a couple of thousand years old and still kicking
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- lalos 8y agoApple and Steve Jobs for that matter basically invented cross-competition inside the same company. He pushed for different teams to work on the same problem and then compared solutions. Even from the Mac vs Lisa days to the iPhone initial designs (iPod based vs what we have now as iPhone) and even on minuscule things (iOS keyboard was assigned to at least 5 different teams and then one engineer got a big breakthrough). Contrary to shutting down any other idea from the get-go and pushing away talented people.
- tinus_hn 8y agoObviously he’s not going to buy WhatsApp for billions of dollars and then keep not earning money on it. You can’t eat having a lot of users.