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0 pointsmortenjorck3y ago0 comments

There's an alternate universe where Zuckerberg takes Yahoo's $1B offer for Facebook in 2006 (which Yahoo sells a decade later to Pinboard for $100k) and becomes more of an Elon Musk figure, investing in and running a handful of forward-thinking businesses.

Imagine Oculus becoming Meta without the Facebook baggage – a hardware-focused company with a major services play, but no adtech business.

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rl33y ago

>Imagine Oculus becoming Meta without the Facebook baggage – a hardware-focused company with a major services play, but no adtech business.

I think this was called Magic Leap. I don't know, I think I still prefer Rony Abovitz awkwardly dancing around in a space suit rather than Zuck.

intrasight3y ago

There's only a hand-full of companies that can make the kind of investment that VR will require. FB is one of them. So is ByteDance.

germinalphrase3y ago

A cautionary tale - for a certain kind of person.

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