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The critical difference here is this is being attempted by the guy who was kind of behind PayPal, Tesla and Spacex. The guys who are trying to make Messenger a

The critical difference here is this is being attempted by the guy who was kind of behind PayPal, Tesla and Spacex. The guys who are trying to make Messenger an everything app are probably some random MBA grads who have done nothing of significance in their life and real world. It's more about ability to make change in real world to improve human condition. Facebook has 0 expertise when it comes to this. Only thing Facebook has expertise is in building web pages, servers and running AB tests to make humanity keep scrolling down and stare at bullshit.

financltravsty 3y ago
> PayPal X.com*
FireBeyond 3y ago
> who was kind of behind PayPal Musk was nowhere near "kind of behind PayPal". Musk had an attempt at an online bank that was ... not going well. Confinity had built a prototype/MVP of PayPal. They'd already got it running. They had trademarks, everything. Then they merged with Musk's company. Musk was the largest shareholder, and was made the first CEO. He remained CEO for four months, most of which he spent trying to be stubborn about throwing away the entire prototype to rewrite it in Windows/IIS and Classic ASP (i.e. Visual Basic) because he didn't understand Solaris and Java. The Board got so sick of this that a couple of days after his four month anniversary, when he'd just left for two weeks off on his honeymoon of all things, they fired him in his absence. Apropos of the recent OpenAI clusterfuck, think about how badly you have to fuck up as a CEO of a company that you're the major shareholder in that they fire you (no "concentrating on my family"), let alone while you're on your honeymoon.
shalmanese 3y ago
> The guys who are trying to make Messenger an everything app are probably some random MBA grads who have done nothing of significance in their life and real world. The head of Messenger when this happened was literally the ex-president of PayPal. https://time.com/2850224/paypal-david-marcus-facebook-messenger/ https://time.com/2850224/paypal-david-marcus-facebook-messen...

financltravsty 3y ago

> PayPal X.com*

FireBeyond 3y ago

> who was kind of behind PayPal Musk was nowhere near "kind of behind PayPal". Musk had an attempt at an online bank that was ... not going well. Confinity had built a prototype/MVP of PayPal. They'd already got it running. They had trademarks, everything. Then they merged with Musk's company. Musk was the largest shareholder, and was made the first CEO. He remained CEO for four months, most of which he spent trying to be stubborn about throwing away the entire prototype to rewrite it in Windows/IIS and Classic ASP (i.e. Visual Basic) because he didn't understand Solaris and Java. The Board got so sick of this that a couple of days after his four month anniversary, when he'd just left for two weeks off on his honeymoon of all things, they fired him in his absence. Apropos of the recent OpenAI clusterfuck, think about how badly you have to fuck up as a CEO of a company that you're the major shareholder in that they fire you (no "concentrating on my family"), let alone while you're on your honeymoon.

shalmanese 3y ago

> The guys who are trying to make Messenger an everything app are probably some random MBA grads who have done nothing of significance in their life and real world. The head of Messenger when this happened was literally the ex-president of PayPal. https://time.com/2850224/paypal-david-marcus-facebook-messenger/ https://time.com/2850224/paypal-david-marcus-facebook-messen...