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I doubt that. In most companies the Managerial chain kill bottom up innovation. There’s less than 1% chance Facebook messenger would be able to live to the phi
by nojvek 8y ago
I doubt that. In most companies the Managerial chain kill bottom up innovation.
There’s less than 1% chance Facebook messenger would be able to live to the philosophy of “no ads, no gimmicks, secure messaging”
That’s why startups can disrupt. It really does reward bottom up innovation.
- sjg007 8y agoWe are talking about a startup that sold to Facebook for $19 billion dollars whose founder was rejected by Facebook when he interviewed for a job there before he started what's app. I know this is make believe world but had Facebook hired him and had he worked on messaging I bet he would have beget a similar product (in make believe land). The problem most of us Americans didn't understand was that SMS cost money (in the rest of the world) and not in the USA. Most American text plans were free and unlimited in the beginning... that was until the US mobile networks caught on to the Europeans and realized they could charge per text. So that what made what's app. And FB could have saved themselves $19B.. still.. if you are right then he probably would have left FB and started What's app on his own.
- nojvek 8y agoThere’s a reason why the founders quit even after Facebook bought them. Facebook is a growth at any cost kind of company. They really wouldn’t have listened to him even if he joined Facebook in the first place. The messenger on Android sends all your text messages and phone logs to Facebook. Mark approved that in the name of growth. There’s absolute no way Whatsapp would have been invented at Facebook. Facebook only bought it because it could have been a serious threat to their dominance.