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Considering that it seems like a large preponderance of startups are trying to be "the next Facebook", I think the guy who started the current Facebook (I'm ass

• rhizome 15y ago
  Isn't Zuck's expertise in being "the actual Facebook," though? Is the conventional wisdom that business (in general) is fractal?
  • m0nastic 15y ago
    I would think that Zuck's experience is in founding a tiny startup, and growing it into the company that everyone points to as the poster-child target for your liquidity event. I don't disagree that for people who are now in the early stages of launching what they hope to be the next big thing, there isn't a 1:1 application of advice from the creator of the current big thing. I'm just puzzled that your initial comment seemed so puzzled about what value having Zuckerberg speak could bring. The guy started a fantastically successful startup. He's bought a bunch of other startups. That would seem to make him a good candidate for talking at a startup-themed event (even if his current company isn't really a startup anymore).
    • pork 15y ago
      > I would think that Zuck's experience is in founding a tiny startup, and growing it into the company that everyone points to as the poster-child target for your liquidity event. Not really, by the time Facebook became a proper "company", it was already huge and growing faster. This is where we must draw a distinction between a "website" and a "startup". When Facebook became a startup, it was already in a position (vis a vis growth) that 99.9% of startups never achieve.