Alright, apart from Instagram, WhatsApp, Llama 1 & 2 and somehow managing to sell nearly 10M less nerdy google glasses what has Zuck done for FB?
Google bought Android before it had released products.
Google Maps was purchased, but was Where 2 actually a successful product prior to that?
But just wanted to correct for the historical record:
> Where 2 had a successful product, it just wasn't web based (nor do I think free), so didn't have anywhere near the distribution that Google enabled once the team ported it to run in a browser.
Where 2 did not have a product, successful or not. They were an unreleased demo looking for investors and luckily got into a room with Larry Page of 2004.
Meta has not shown the second part.
You said
> buying a successful business and keeping it successful for over a decade.
Meta bought already successful companies.
Google has purchased successful businesses, but they also purchased companies that weren't and managed to get them into massive money makers.
I’m no Zuck fan, but he’s done much more than keep them successful, they have grown a lot.
I remember everyone making fun of him for overpaying for IG and WA. Now both in hindsight look like amazing acquisitions.
The continual success of fb and instagram has not come from zuck but through glorified A/B testing on steroids whilst lighting employee’s asses on fire each quarter to move the metrics. Visionary genius? My ass. Only Steve Jobs proved he is worthy of that title.
Bro is a fraud. He always was - remember he stole the idea for fb. Thankfully he’s getting found out.
>I almost want to put some of these faces next to pictures of farm animals and have people vote on which is more attractive.
Do we really need to discuss this? He tried to screw another founder - the Brazilian - who got a pay off and now has a reported net worth in the billions.
honestly - meta has built quite a lot of cool things, but c-suite is probably to be blamed for what's going on today.
This is before Google.
Nobody else has this targeted focus.