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New comment by wjeje in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

wjeje — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:33:52 +0000

No the strategy of having a professional looking social space in the web, specifically focused on college folks solely was novel - this is what he stole and without this it wouldn’t have gotten to the place of success it is today. Knowing about the technology is no good without a solid strategy - with a solid strategy anyone can raise the funding to go build it. It’s easy to know what to build when you have a vision specifically of what you’re building into.

Nobody else has this targeted focus.

New comment by wjeje in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

wjeje — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:32:38 +0000

Correct

New comment by wjeje in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

wjeje — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:32:21 +0000

If he didn’t steal anything why did winklevoss and another person at Harvard involved in the original project get a pay off…?

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.

New comment by wjeje in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

wjeje — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 03:36:41 +0000

I mean he’s got boz in his circle - is that short for bozo?

New comment by wjeje in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

wjeje — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 03:22:21 +0000

No he bought everything out of paranoia to shut out competition.

They tried organically to replicate instagram etc but they failed even though they had wayyyy more resources. Their attempts sucked. So their approach was to target for acquisition or copy features if they couldn’t.

There’s plenty of evidence of this re. His comms around those events.

New comment by wjeje in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

wjeje — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 03:19:31 +0000

Let’s go another step further!

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.