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Um that part about LinkedIn's product being simple... what??

• rhizome 13y ago
  Yes. Users with friends, an activity feed, and job classifieds are all solved problems that many underemployed web developers could throw a prototype together in weeks or a few months. Tack on that pointless skills voting junk and webboards as desired. Did I miss anything? The fact that they have stockholders means they always have to do something: Google and driverless cars, Musk going to Mars, Facebook going phone...this IMAP hijacking is LinkedIn's current something that they have to come up with to have a story to tell investors so that they don't think LinkedIn is "stagnating."
  • meshko 13y ago
    Building _anything_ on that scale is not trivial.