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Mistakes all the way to the bank. Zuckerberg at the helm allows them to make all sorts of sophomoric apologies as if everyone at Facebook is "awe shucks" sorry
by napierzaza 15y ago
Mistakes all the way to the bank. Zuckerberg at the helm allows them to make all sorts of sophomoric apologies as if everyone at Facebook is "awe shucks" sorry about everything.
Perfect because he appears as a naive first timer and makes it sound like these sorts of changes were just an idea he had and they rolled it out like things work as a start up.
But it's more likely that there were very many long meetings about just how far to push it, and just how much money that would make them.
- numlocked 15y agoThey may have had meetings about how far they can push it, but I'm not so sure about the money bit. Facebook has actually shown a remarkable amount of restraint when it comes to making money. It's in Zuckerberg's DNA - the guy just doesn't seem to care that much about money. For instance, if Facebook was trying to maximize profits it could have fairly easily rolled out an off-site ad network ala adsense that is FAR better targeted (based on FB cookies) than adsense could ever be. They could displace Google practically overnight. But they've resisted doing that and instead just continued to make enough money to run and grow the company at a healthy clip. I'm not a Facebook apologist - some of the "mistakes" are really scary and unconscionable, but I don't believe the motive is as simple as profit maximization.