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Is it complicated? Diaspora was a nice idea but if I recall correctly it was a group of kids with no experience or evidence of being able to execute who happen
by dickbasedregex 14y ago
Is it complicated? Diaspora was a nice idea but if I recall correctly it was a group of kids with no experience or evidence of being able to execute who happen to catch a great marketing wind.
- troymc 14y ago"A group of kids with no experience or evidence of being able to execute who happen to catch a great marketing wind" describes many organizations that did become successful (including Facebook).
- zalew 14y agoyeah, but when you position yourself as a facebook killer from the start, you better kill facebook or you lose the hype and die.
- mseebach 14y agoNo. There's an important distinction as to when you catch the marketing wind. Facebook was executing like there was no tomorrow before they got any kind of attention like Diaspora had before they wrote any code.
- nostrademons 14y agoFacebook was Mark Zuckerburg's 3rd company. His second, Synapse Media Player, was a machine-learning-based music player that got 7-figure buyout offers from Microsoft and AOL when Zuckerburg was 17.