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I don’t recall it that way. Everyone in tech was impressed by Google circa 1998 - it was the first search engine that really didn’t suck in some way. Facebook n
by KerrAvon 4y ago
I don’t recall it that way. Everyone in tech was impressed by Google circa 1998 - it was the first search engine that really didn’t suck in some way. Facebook never had that level of tech cred, although it wasn’t as reviled early on as it is now.
- benreesman 4y agoI mean, AFAIK basically the first thing Sheryl did when she joined Facebook (from Google) in 2008 was break ranks with the wage-fixing cartel and immediately hire like a whole infrastructure organization from Google. Many if not most of the early-ish-days hardass hackers at FB were (figuratively) still wearing Google T-shirts when they built FB's scale infrastructure. So to anyone paying attention at that time, it was pretty clear that the level of tech cred should be about the same. It was the same people.