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Re:Meta to Layoff 10k Employees by ipaddr on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @01:36PM (#35155249)
Lol.. such a foolish comment. He didn't luck into anything. He stole it and made it into what it is today. Remember the login to your email and we'll send invites to everyone? Facebook invented that. Keep it restricted to .edu and rolling out school by school was a strategy. Identify companies who are a threat and buy them.. facebook was very successful at that.

Luck had very little to do with facebook's success.

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Re:Meta to Layoff 10k Employees by jonathankoren on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @04:13PM (#35157720)
Luck had everything to do with it. FB was no different than Six Degrees, or Friendster, or Orkut, let alone MySpace.

Identifying threats? Please. EVERYONE knows who the threats to FB were and are. It’s just that not all of us has the money to buy them.

Mark Zuckerberg is average.

His one big “innovation” is taking legs out of Second Life.

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Re:Meta to Layoff 10k Employees by blsapologist42 on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @06:23PM (#35159920)
Why did none of those succeed then? You are basically defeating your own argument.
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Re:Meta to Layoff 10k Employees by jonathankoren on Thursday March 16, 2023 @10:42PM (#35192261)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
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