If you cloned every single detail, I suppose you'd have an exact clone, including all the people. But cloning the main features is cloning the service, from a u

If you cloned every single detail, I suppose you'd have an exact clone, including all the people. But cloning the main features is cloning the service, from a user perspective. I think you're vastly underestimating how much scale they already had, before all these people. When FB IPOed (just 6 years ago) FB were operatating with 1/10 the current resources. ATT, they were already generating revenue and private investors were falling overthemselves to invest.. so it's not like times were leane then. Since, revenue, expenses & headcount has grown 10X. FB is still basically FB. If their ad business had capped off at $8bn instead of $80bn, my guess is that almost nothing a user notices would be different. It's not proveable. You can always counter that FB does 10X more than they did 6 years ago. We can't count the number of cars leaving a factory.