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The company feels like the corporate embodiment of its founder.

joe_mamba 5mo ago
Unscrupulous guy who stole the idea from other guys in university, then used tribal nepotism to make sure his fabric of society destructive platform is the one who gets big-finance VC funding in order to destroy society to make money? Pretty common pattern in the business racket if you look at history.
- guelo 5mo ago
  What does tribal nepotism mean here?
  - ncr100 5mo ago
    Facebook.com, the OG first version, was access limited to certain higher education institutions. Like you couldn't get an account at Facebook in 2005 unless you were were a ... I don't remember ... Harvard student? Regarding nepotism: You know, "oh I remember that guy from my time at Harvard University so let's hire him" .. isn't that nepotism?
    - Eisenstein 5mo ago
      Nepotism refers to relatives, not acquaintances.
      - joe_mamba 5mo ago
        Fine, cronyism then, if that technicality was the snag. Zuck was very well connected in the academic, legal, tech and finance industry, that's how he got away with theft and got VC money thrown at his company and not other companies doing the same thing.
Cider9986 5mo ago
HN was positive on him at one point. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2157445 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2157445 >I really applaud Zuckerberg for positively embracing all the attention that's been shouldered on him, really. I think stuff like this SNL skit or him taking his core team at Facebook to watch "The Social Network" together at a movie theatre just shows tremendous inner strength and maturity on his part. It's great to see him be able to laugh it off and joke about it. He's come a long way in his public speaking skills too, he was pretty natural and comedic during his talk at Startup School. I think he's only going to get better from this point on too.
- hnlmorg 5mo ago
  You say that like people shouldn’t be allowed to change their opinion of other people.
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- Forgeties79 5mo ago
  Yeah 15 years ago. We also thought Twitter was going to foster a positive social revolution, increase accountability, and topple autocracies. We saw how that turned out. Uber was once loved, Airbnb was once loved, we’ve seen it over and over again. HN isn’t exceptional here.
senderista 5mo ago
Doesn't every company? Amazon is another example that immediately springs to mind.

Unscrupulous guy who stole the idea from other guys in university, then used tribal nepotism to make sure his fabric of society destructive platform is the one who gets big-finance VC funding in order to destroy society to make money? Pretty common pattern in the business racket if you look at history.

guelo 5mo ago
What does tribal nepotism mean here?
- ncr100 5mo ago
  Facebook.com, the OG first version, was access limited to certain higher education institutions. Like you couldn't get an account at Facebook in 2005 unless you were were a ... I don't remember ... Harvard student? Regarding nepotism: You know, "oh I remember that guy from my time at Harvard University so let's hire him" .. isn't that nepotism?
  - Eisenstein 5mo ago
    Nepotism refers to relatives, not acquaintances.
    - joe_mamba 5mo ago
      Fine, cronyism then, if that technicality was the snag. Zuck was very well connected in the academic, legal, tech and finance industry, that's how he got away with theft and got VC money thrown at his company and not other companies doing the same thing.

Cider9986 5mo ago

HN was positive on him at one point. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2157445 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2157445 >I really applaud Zuckerberg for positively embracing all the attention that's been shouldered on him, really. I think stuff like this SNL skit or him taking his core team at Facebook to watch "The Social Network" together at a movie theatre just shows tremendous inner strength and maturity on his part. It's great to see him be able to laugh it off and joke about it. He's come a long way in his public speaking skills too, he was pretty natural and comedic during his talk at Startup School. I think he's only going to get better from this point on too.

hnlmorg 5mo ago
You say that like people shouldn’t be allowed to change their opinion of other people.
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Forgeties79 5mo ago
Yeah 15 years ago. We also thought Twitter was going to foster a positive social revolution, increase accountability, and topple autocracies. We saw how that turned out. Uber was once loved, Airbnb was once loved, we’ve seen it over and over again. HN isn’t exceptional here.

senderista 5mo ago

Doesn't every company? Amazon is another example that immediately springs to mind.