Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
We persuaded close friends and employees to create complete personal profiles to fuel our start. But all too quickly we learned that we had vastly overbuilt the website.
Robin Chase • Peers Inc
Facebook achieved its goal of building the largest social network not by pursuing a land-grab strategy like its competitors but rather by following a carefully orchestrated staged rollout strategy. Even though it wasn’t first and didn’t start with an inherent unfair advantage,
Ash Maurya • Scaling Lean
Social Networks - MySpace, Friendster, Facebook and LinkedIn lead the charge to map out people’s relationships on the Internet. They used the best technology that they had access to at the time: a Delaware Corporation and racks of privately owned servers. This concentrated enormous amounts of power and capital in the hands of a few Silicon Valley C... See more
Ric Burton • Social Networks & Sociable Protocols
David Cohen
@cocobware01
Zuckerberg described the potential acquisition of Unity as both a way to ensure Facebook’s supremacy in a future of VR and AR, as well as a way to make sure no other technology company stands in their way.
Sriram Krishnan • Zuck on buying Unity
Hire friends and friends of friends. Go after these people like crazy to get them to join. Some other candidate sources are ok, but I always got bad results from technical recruiters.
Sam Altman • Startup Advice
New worldviews are bubbling away in little cauldrons all the time, but they only flow into the mainstream (eg become part of corporate trainings, official gov't policy, school curricula) when they are structurally of service to preserve the power status quo.
Historically, Facebook has taken an entity-centric approach to discovery. We help you connect with the friends, groups, and pages you care about most. Then updates from those connections are ranked in Feed. Unconnected content in Feed was surfaced via reshares from the friends, groups, and pages you follow, but unconnected recommendations weren’t h... See more
Internal Tech Emails • Facebook vs. TikTok | Elon Musk emails Tesla's board
One of the most interesting memos about the acquisition of Instagram by Facebook.On this memo, Mark Zuckerberg starts to share how excited he was about what he could do to grow lnstagram as an independent brand and product while also having Kevin Systrom (Founder of instagram) take on a major leadership role within Facebook that would span all of t... See more