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It feels like Facebook will be written as a warning business case in allowing a single person to retain too much decision making control. Zuckerberg had 2.5 go
by ethbr1 4mo ago
It feels like Facebook will be written as a warning business case in allowing a single person to retain too much decision making control.
Zuckerberg had 2.5 good ideas: Facebook (shared), prioritizing mobile early, and buying competing social platforms with high growth
Everything else they've thrown big money at has been a dumpster fire.
- JKCalhoun 4mo agoWorst still, they destroyed social media, perhaps even contributed to destroying mobile (destroyed in the sense that, well, they became dumpster fires).
- ethbr1 4mo agoI'm not sure a growth-obsessed Facebook could have done anything other than destroy social media, in the same way that a growth-obsessed Google couldn't have done anything other than destroy the web. The only plausible alternate reality I can see would have been one where US anti-trust was vigorously enforced and kept Instagram and WhatsApp from being bought. But that would have required expansions of US anti-trust law to allow for more proactive deployment.
- rbanffy 4mo ago> But that would have required expansions of US anti-trust law to allow for more proactive deployment. A nice hint for legislators to come.