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> Facebook is a database of people’s profiles, their friend graphs and their status updates. Paypal is a database of people’s account balances. Amazon is a data
by ricardobeat 5y ago
> Facebook is a database of people’s profiles, their friend graphs and their status updates. Paypal is a database of people’s account balances. Amazon is a database of SKUs, payment credentials and purchase histories. Google is a database of web pages and query histories.
This is painfully wrong. Almost true for Facebook, but in general these companies most valued assets are their systems and operations, not the data itself.
Also I’m pretty sure the first PCs weren’t cheaper at all.
- jakear 5y agoPaypal's might be the closest. If FB, Amazon, or Google woke up and saw that all their data was gone, it'd be extremely annoying but recoverable by just having users recreate accounts (or re-scraping). If they woke up and saw that all their ops & systems were gone, it'd be the end of the company. If PayPal lost either it'd be the end of the company.