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It is an ad company, everyone there works on ads or indirectly works on making a platform for ads.

The only exception is people who’ve managed to sneak their way into positions where they don’t contribute anything to the company. Those people are doing society a favor by wasting Facebook’s money.

I don’t think that’s true. Google took their ad money and placed a famous number of bets on moonshots, more than any company in a long time (back as far as Bell Labs? Did even they fund their research to the extent Google has?)

The whole Metaverse bet at Meta is also plausibly a 10s-of-$b bet that isn’t going to drive the ad flywheel, though I’m sure they hope it is. My impression is Zuck would be ok with just having a VR platform even if it’s generating revenue from not-ads.

Well, a lot of them do work directly on ads. Obviously not everybody, but a significant fraction. And most of the rest are just building things (products, features) to be able to show more ads.

98% of Meta's revenue is from ads. Meta is an ads department.

They all do.

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