Facebook is turning an awful lot of Democrats into enemies. Very curious to see how Zuckerberg tries to maneuver Facebook through wartime. [1]
Sounds nailed on to be the DNC nominee then.
Obviously the exception here is Hillary Clinton. But I do wonder about the gender component of the beer test - while she was seen as aloof and alienating a lot of women didn't see Hillary that way.
It’s a spectrum, right? Skill and luck. How much of each has contributed to its success?
There was never any shortage of competitors, and Facebook wasn't the first on the social media scene by any measure. It came out of nowhere and toppled the dominant incumbent, and is still going strong against competition from giants like Google.
Facebook started with Harvard students. Then Boston area colleges, Ivy League, then it was expanded to most universities with a .edu domain. You didn't need invites (Google's preferred method), just to be a member of the right kind of institution. It launched to the public at large in 2006.
Those first couple years, a lot of the use of Facebook was reconnecting with old friends. High school classmates, or if you'd graduated but still had a university email your fellow college classmates. This was a distinct endeavor from Myspace. It was explicitly about connecting people who shared a particular geographic or institutional social context (not any context, school). There were no bands, no autoplaying music. Just you and people you may or may not know connecting to each other.
Now, they obviously intended to grow it into something larger. And they have done a great job with it. Here's the question:
The choice to open it to universities was obviously deliberate, but was the intent to test scaling Facebook or to create an initial critical mass of likeminded, like-aged individuals?
My wager is on the former, though I could be proven wrong. That initial smaller but focused group is what allowed them to successfully compete.
Luck: They stumbled onto a successful model for building a from-scratch social network with their focused approach.
Skill: They intended to be focused on college-aged students believing it would build their critical mass social network more effectively.
Lets see zuck try that - I think he will succeed too at least better than the "charming" presidents of the recent past on either side
TPP cancelled
Prison reform
NAFTA renegotiated (this is something that is nit clear how well he did)
China trade war (which by bloombergs account he has an upper hand in)
North Korea peace
Yes, he closed all those tax loopholes that he is an expert at exploiting (his words, not mine). He implemented his plan to win the war in Afghanistan. The wall along the border of Mexico is 30 feet tall and beautiful and Mexico paid for it. The opioid problem has been solved. He has released his tax returns. He has put his assets in a blind trust. He has Made America Great Again.