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> trying to do exactly the same thing, but worse

You mean launching Google when we have Altavista?

Launching FB when we have LiveJournal?

(I mean at founding/initial version level, of course they became better than their competition, but that took time)

The sad part about this is that $8Mi is peanuts.



> You mean launching Google when we have Altavista?

google was miles ahead of altavista.

> Launching FB when we have LiveJournal

FB was miles ahead of LiveJournal.

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a trend appears…


Not at their beginning they weren't. Google wasn't better than AV after their first investment.

FB wasn't even public at first, but School/University only.


They had different ideas / approaches.




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