Sorry for all the people who’ve lost their jobs, but I’m excited to see the awesome world-changing stuff they’ll make now that they’re not spending their time building FB/Instagram.
I have no idea if Metaverse is a game you download and run or it's supposed to be some tokens you take from game to game. I just have no idea. I've seen the creepy/shitty Zuck avatars, so I assume there is some chat-game involved somewhere.
Notice there are no questions in this post. I don't care to learn. Just re-stating how poor the messaging of what it is they apparently want me to care about is.
It may not be realistic or desirable, but I don't get how someone couldn't possibly wrap their head around what it is.
What I'm poking fun at is that i haven't seen a single piece of news explaining Zuck's plan. Did he even have one?
Where are you hearing that?
If these smart people spend their brain energy to address these needs, which the world actually needs, they'll find success again, and the world will be changed in the way it needs to be... and frankly that's the way capitalism is supposed to work. Changing the world is only rewarded when people want it.
And I disagree that solving climate change etc. is a "need" for most people. I think we all pretty much accept that climate change is going to happen unless some major coups or revolutions take place, and there's nothing we can do about it. Seems like the plan for the individual is just to ride it out for our 80 years, or until there's some food shortage or water crisis that kills us.
now, if google lay off a lot of people... that would be different
> if they were going to do something awesome they probably wouldn't have been working there.
For the past 10+ years, in this forum, the advice is to stop trying to build something, go work at Faang
I think the advice given, when requested, has much more nuance that takes into account the context provided in the request. Do you honestly think HN is just a bunch of FAANG fanboys?
Based on what is being upvoted, and what is not being downvoted, yes
There’s no comparison to Facebook.
Maps I'm pretty sure is a loss leader or used for data for ads
Gmail as well
Android is platform to hit you with ads
Chrome/Chromeboooks also
GCP is actually a viable business, albeit in a very competitive market
self driving cars, research, quantum computers, none of those make money.
There is a perfect comparison to Facebook, and for that matter, MTV and the New York Times. They all make money by selling ads.
It probably depends on one’s perspective. Their Q3’22 financials show that $54b of their $69b revenue for the quarter is advertising income. It is also listed first in their financials.
https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2022Q3_alphabet_earnings...
Yes, have you seen the salaries recently? an E6 can make nearly half a million a year in total compensation.
We both have jobs because we need to pay our bills.
Best of luck with the side project, hope it entices you/your cofounder to leave Facebook.
>now, if google lay off a lot of people... that would be different
The culture in google isn't any better. Smart people who want to do things haven't gone there since 2012.