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The WWW is still in it's adolescence. Facebook empire is the next AOL, Yahoo. Mark my words.

• lanstin 5y ago
  But Steve Case was not pushing to win 100% he was happy to be biggest player with competitors. So AOL was a lot less ruthless. Also our revenue model was “fun stuff for people to use so they pay a subscription” not “sell peoples intimate data to data brokers.” But definitely a lesson in how innovation can leave an organization. Informally, I blame the influx of MBAs and people attracted more to success than to building fun user experiences, but of course lobbying from phone and cable to block access to the higher speed plumbing which was allowed by law for POTS made the business model of subscribe for a good experience untenable.
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