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"I made hot-or-not for my campus, then I made MySpace (but exclusive, .edu emails only), then MySpace sold out and everyone jumped to my site." So much luck.
by strbean 7y ago
"I made hot-or-not for my campus, then I made MySpace (but exclusive, .edu emails only), then MySpace sold out and everyone jumped to my site."
So much luck.
- loceng 7y agoMore a lack of conscience or morals than luck: 1) The twin brothers hired him to build out ConnectU including the exclusivity mechanism of .edu emails only 2) Mark purposefully mislead/lied to the twins claiming he was working on ConnectU that he was contracted/paid to do - meanwhile actually focusing on his own version called TheFacebook to launch before them; him knowing that you didn't need to platforms so he wanted to be first to market, a transcript of him saying as much exists 3) The university was already planning to take their real life physical "The Facebook" and make an online version. Mark's quoted in the university newspaper saying he didn't understand why it was taking them so long, that he could get it done quickly. The reason it was taking "so long" is the committee, group doing it was thinking/brainstorming through potential privacy, security, and safety issues that could be a problem, presumably to design the platform with solutions to protect people; we clearly know now Mark has never thought about or cared about this, nor proactively cared for any such things, except for optics purposes.