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Exactly. Take Facebook, Zuckerberg wasn't trying to be the next Zuckerberg at the beginning. Take a look at this very early interview with him: http://www.yout

by soneca 13y ago

Exactly. Take Facebook, Zuckerberg wasn't trying to be the next Zuckerberg at the beginning. Take a look at this very early interview with him: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ5otpv6kTw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ5otpv6kTw Skip to 3:57, he is saying "doesn't have to be more" after being at 29 schools. He is worried about quality over quantity. If Facebook started with this mentality and landed a billion users, why anyone would think that think big has any relation with becoming big?

loceng 13y ago
Zuckerberg was a developer, who was trying to make it big by using ideas and theory that he was hired to implement; He understood that the requiring of a university email address curated for people of a certain demographic. There's usually a misconception between size and importance as well.
- bluejes 13y ago
  Of course you know that colleges use LISTSERV to this day.
visakanv 13y ago
"I'm pretty sure that, given those instructions, young Boz would build a social network and make it immediately available to everyone. It would obviously seem like a mistake to him to limit membership to a small subset of the population. Some other social network might come along and just open its doors to everyone and he would never overtake them! As you probably already know, the situation I describe actually happened; there was one social network that grew incrementally while another opened its doors to the world. Fast forward five years and things haven't turned out the way young Boz might have expected. As it turns out, the path Facebook took to connecting everyone in the world was not the shortest and that has made all the difference. By starting small and expanding outward we built a community. By integrating networks that had originally been separate we had to focus on privacy. By throwing open the floodgates of growth in increments rather than all at once we were able to focus on keeping a consistent design and building scalable infrastructure. These things are now part of the DNA of our company and they affect everything we build." - Boz https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=82081294140 https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=82081294140
- wisty 13y ago
  IMO, Facebook won because it uses real names. It's a lot faster to find people (especially people you've lost touch with) when you can see their names.
  - collyw 13y ago
    I have lots of facebook friends without real names.

by soneca 13y ago

loceng 13y ago

Zuckerberg was a developer, who was trying to make it big by using ideas and theory that he was hired to implement; He understood that the requiring of a university email address curated for people of a certain demographic. There's usually a misconception between size and importance as well.

bluejes 13y ago
Of course you know that colleges use LISTSERV to this day.

visakanv 13y ago

"I'm pretty sure that, given those instructions, young Boz would build a social network and make it immediately available to everyone. It would obviously seem like a mistake to him to limit membership to a small subset of the population. Some other social network might come along and just open its doors to everyone and he would never overtake them! As you probably already know, the situation I describe actually happened; there was one social network that grew incrementally while another opened its doors to the world. Fast forward five years and things haven't turned out the way young Boz might have expected. As it turns out, the path Facebook took to connecting everyone in the world was not the shortest and that has made all the difference. By starting small and expanding outward we built a community. By integrating networks that had originally been separate we had to focus on privacy. By throwing open the floodgates of growth in increments rather than all at once we were able to focus on keeping a consistent design and building scalable infrastructure. These things are now part of the DNA of our company and they affect everything we build." - Boz https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=82081294140 https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=82081294140

wisty 13y ago
IMO, Facebook won because it uses real names. It's a lot faster to find people (especially people you've lost touch with) when you can see their names.
- collyw 13y ago
  I have lots of facebook friends without real names.