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Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by boxed on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @07:10AM (#33530405)
It's better to make many small bets and when they start to take off, THEN put the foot on the pedal. Zuck has been notoriously bad at creating new products, so betting the company on that he'll manage it this time seems like a very bad idea.
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Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by benjaminwootton on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @08:05AM (#33530994)
Buying Instagram was a real jaw dropping moment if I remember. $1 billion sounded like a lot of money back in the day!
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Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by sicp-enjoyer on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @04:30PM (#33538155)
How do you start a Tesla with small bets?
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Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by boxed on Thursday November 10, 2022 @03:14PM (#33552565)
With the roadster.

He also started SpaceX with Falcon 1, not Falcon 9, and certainly not Starship.

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Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by sicp-enjoyer on Friday November 11, 2022 @11:54AM (#33563231)
That's a good point. The principle of proving a simple possible version makes sense. Just pointing out that those "small" steps Tesla took are already a lot bigger than most software projects.
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Re:Meta lays off 11,000 people by boxed on Friday November 11, 2022 @04:45PM (#33567291)
Mostly because those projects are badly mismanaged from before they even write the first line of code :P
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