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Meituan's head, Wang Xing, "calls Facebook Inc. a copycat for imitating other online services." But then the article goes through his past work: 1. "...in 2003
by combatentropy 8y ago
Meituan's head, Wang Xing, "calls Facebook Inc. a copycat for imitating other online services." But then the article goes through his past work:
1. "...in 2003, he dropped out, inspired by Friendster, a Facebook precursor, to create a social network for China."
2. "Their 2007 effort, a popular Twitter look-alike called Fanfou..."
3. "In 2010 he created Meituan in the mold of Groupon..."
4. "...he plans to introduce an Amazon Prime-like subscription service."
I myself don't care if you copy an idea. In fact it seems unavoidable, because "there is nothing new under the sun," "everything is a remix," and "ideas are just multipliers." What differentiates your business is your execution. Apple did not come up with new ideas. They took old ideas and did them really, really, really well. They didn't invent the graphical user interface. The iPod was not the first MP3 player. The iPhone was not the first smartphone. The iPad was not the first tablet computer.
- tapirl 8y agoWang Xing holds the same opinions as you. He doesn't criticize Facebook.