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Not so sure. Why compete with Google by trying to do exactly the same thing, but worse? It's a shitty business plan. Might even be too shit for SV.

• raverbashing 5y ago
  > trying to do exactly the same thing, but worse You mean launching Google when we have Altavista? Launching FB when we have LiveJournal? (I mean at founding/initial version level, of course they became better than their competition, but that took time) The sad part about this is that $8Mi is peanuts.
  • kmlx 5y ago
    > You mean launching Google when we have Altavista? google was miles ahead of altavista. > Launching FB when we have LiveJournal FB was miles ahead of LiveJournal. —- a trend appears…
    • raverbashing 5y ago
      Not at their beginning they weren't. Google wasn't better than AV after their first investment. FB wasn't even public at first, but School/University only.
      • dantheman 5y ago
        They had different ideas / approaches.