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 p

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.