How to Swallow $200M Accidentally

Easily one of the best articles I've read on Medium or for free online in a long time. Funny and in-depth analysis of incumbent competition with great supporting evidence.

Other comments here on HN are about the forced analogy or verbosity of the article but I think the point was to be entertaining and insightful. And I think it was artfully executed.

Thanks for posting the link!

I think the bigger take-away here is the connection between media pronouncements and stock prices. It's a nice reminder that anyone with a good lawyer and writing skills can tank a stock for a profit way too easily. I've always been for reforms in valuation approach that reduce risk of this. Especially given that we know companies pull crap like this sometimes to cause that exact effect. They're always tricking us for market share or whatever. So, why trust it by default?

it seems like maybe a more reasonable conclusion to draw is that the search feature is still being tested and tweaked quietly, and as such facebook's press office isn't hitting the gas as hard on getting it media attention as it is on the professional services page. There isn't necessarily a 1:1 correlation between what they send out to journalists and what's reported, but there certainly is one.

What a tortured analogy

Written by "Former Director of Product @ Facebook" - that's how it reads.

Yelp killer? Let me know when Facebook has a dedicated app on your smartphone that doesn't require login which searches for businesses in a map view, with pictures, ratings, and reviews.

The content here could have fit into a single paragraph.

Seems like he mostly wrote this article to insult MBAs with a straw-man argument made up of very strange analogies.

Why is everyone in the article's comments sucking up to the author so hard?