How I almost killed Facebook

Re:How I almost killed Facebook by cpr on Thursday February 26, 2009 @01:20PM (#496182)

It struck me as egotism masquerading as self-deprecation.

It'd be like my talking about how I almost destroyed Microsoft because I used to tease Gates about he was wasting his time programming those silly microcomputers, when he was hacking late at night on his 8080 assembler/linker/simulator in the PDP-10 machine room at the old Harvard CRCT. (Which happens to be true. ;-)

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Re:How I almost killed Facebook by gruseom on Thursday February 26, 2009 @01:52PM (#496219)

It struck me as egotism masquerading as self-deprecation.

Damn, you beat me to it! I was going to say: Egotism masquerading as self-deprecation masquerading as egotism.

Edit: That's a pretty great story about Gates, and it got me curious, so I googled some other places where you mentioned him. This one was my favorite, because it confirms a belief I have about companies' personalities reflecting their founders':

http://caelumetterra.wordpress.com/2006/01/19/ceos-red-in-to...

It also makes a shrewd observation about Microsoft.

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Re:How I almost killed Facebook by gruseom on Thursday February 26, 2009 @08:01PM (#496678)

Meant to add: sorry for web-stalking you... that tidbit was just too enticing to pass up!

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Re:How I almost killed Facebook by cpr on Friday February 27, 2009 @10:05AM (#497248)

Oh, not at all. It's all public record.

You found me off in some odd corners of the net, I see (Catholic agrarianism, in this case).

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