5 ms·
Alright, apart from Instagram, WhatsApp, Llama 1 & 2 and somehow managing to sell nearly 10M less nerdy google glasses what has Zuck done for FB?
by rao-v 6mo ago
Alright, apart from Instagram, WhatsApp, Llama 1 & 2 and somehow managing to sell nearly 10M less nerdy google glasses what has Zuck done for FB?
- qwertybrah 6mo agoOne step further. Besides Facebook itself whqt has zuck been visionary about ? Instw and WhatsApp was bought. He thought chatbots was the thing in ‘17, then abandoned it for VR and metaverse, all the while chatbots start taking off. Every time he’s in an interview he talks like he’s some savant, really he got lucky with fb and done nothing since
- wjeje 6mo agoLet’s go another step further! The continual success of fb and instagram has not come from zuck but through glorified A/B testing on steroids whilst lighting employee’s asses on fire each quarter to move the metrics. Visionary genius? My ass. Only Steve Jobs proved he is worthy of that title. Bro is a fraud. He always was - remember he stole the idea for fb. Thankfully he’s getting found out.
- hyperhello 6mo agoDid he really steal the idea? I thought the idea was just a message board for Harvard students. That isn’t novel.
- razakel 6mo agoThe original idea was this: >I almost want to put some of these faces next to pictures of farm animals and have people vote on which is more attractive.
- wjeje 6mo agoIf he didn’t steal anything why did winklevoss and another person at Harvard involved in the original project get a pay off…? Do we really need to discuss this? He tried to screw another founder - the Brazilian - who got a pay off and now has a reported net worth in the billions.
- philipnee 6mo agoi argue that most ideas aren't necessary novel, so stealing idea isn't necessary bad.... e.g. i don't think google search was entirely novel, but was well executed. honestly - meta has built quite a lot of cool things, but c-suite is probably to be blamed for what's going on today.
- degamad 6mo agoSearch was not novel, but PageRank was novel.
- subpixel 6mo agoStealing an idea is different from lying to people in order to steal their actual business, which is more like what Zuckerberg did.
- wjeje 6mo agoNo the strategy of having a professional looking social space in the web, specifically focused on college folks solely was novel - this is what he stole and without this it wouldn’t have gotten to the place of success it is today. Knowing about the technology is no good without a solid strategy - with a solid strategy anyone can raise the funding to go build it. It’s easy to know what to build when you have a vision specifically of what you’re building into. Nobody else has this targeted focus.
- b00ty4breakfast 6mo agoPretty sure they bought Insta and Whatsapp. I mean, that's not nothing, buying a successful business and keeping it successful for over a decade. But neither Zuck nor Meta made those platforms; they were both established successes in their own right before acquisition.
- stephbook 6mo agoOnly The Zuck saw the value though. Why didn't MS, Amazon or Google buy insta? Or some Softbank vehicle?
- afavour 6mo agoI’m sure the others saw the value too. It just wasn’t worth as much to them as Zuckerberg was prepared to pay. Not surprising given it’s a service that directly competed with FB in the social space.
- b00ty4breakfast 6mo agoProbably because Instagram wasn't a direct competitor to any of those other companies (except maybe Google+, which wasn't even a year old at the time that FB bought Instagram). I don't know why softbank didn't get them.
- hn_throwaway_99 6mo agoThis is the case with most tech companies. Google bought Android, YouTube, DoubleClick, Maps, etc. etc.
- happymellon 6mo agoAlthough in this case Meta bought companies that were already established and successful. Google bought Android before it had released products. Google Maps was purchased, but was Where 2 actually a successful product prior to that?
- hn_throwaway_99 6mo ago
- nomel 6mo agoLook at Meta's profits by year.
- Danox 6mo agoMeta profits are good but they’re closing in on the $100 billion dollar mark in their Meta Quest/AI fiasco just because you can afford it doesn’t mean you should do it. See another company called Oracle for a similar path.
- philipnee 6mo agobuild and tear down metaverse. zero sum.
- red_admiral 6mo agoLots of things, but he then chucked all the profits at a stupid idea that he even renamed the company for.