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Throwing warm bodies at a company just because is a sure way to fail. See any number of failed companies full of really-smart-people. Even thinking machines fai

Throwing warm bodies at a company just because is a sure way to fail. See any number of failed companies full of really-smart-people. Even thinking machines failed, and they had Richard Feynman. Facebook has grown large enough now that engineering is not their most difficult task - that's a solved problem now. Now staying useful without becoming a slow, bloated stupid company is their biggest challenge. See myspace for an example of exactly how not to do this.

tsally 17y ago
Perhaps I am misinformed, but it's my impression that MySpace never recruited talent on the level that Facebook has been able to do. You do make an excellent point about how intelligence is not enough to succeed, however Facebook has already demonstrated its ability to penetrate and hold a large portion of an incredibly large market. This, along with the high quality software they've released publicly, gives me enough confidence in their ability to succeed. It's true that Thinking Machines achieved a large market share in supercomputers, but it's my understanding that this was largely because of the fact that DARPA made Thinking Machines their biggest client for a long time. When DARPA started to spread out their orders, Thinking Machines went bankrupt. Facebook has been able to capture market share on its own.