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Re:Genius Sells to Media Lab for $80M by duxup on Thursday September 16, 2021 @08:59AM (#28551136)
>shouldn't have taken vc funding

That was my first thought too. The whole idea seems great, but more as a community project or just smaller slower company. Not sure you can make Genius into something that justifies hoping for massive returns.

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Re:Genius Sells to Media Lab for $80M by IggleSniggle on Thursday September 16, 2021 @10:42AM (#28552446)
It's a reinvention of the hyperlink where they own the hyperlink, and if it had gotten enough traction who knows what they could have accomplished. I mean, Facebook was just a reinvention of the blog or webrings where Facebook owns the webring, right? I think it could have worked.
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Re:Genius Sells to Media Lab for $80M by pessimizer on Thursday September 16, 2021 @11:16AM (#28552881)
Facebook was just a reinvention of MySpace with was a reinvention of Friendster.
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