i argue that most ideas aren't necessary novel, so stealing idea isn't necessary bad.... e.g. i don't think google search was entirely novel, but was well executed.
replyhonestly - meta has built quite a lot of cool things, but c-suite is probably to be blamed for what's going on today.
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.
replyNobody else has this targeted focus.
Search was not novel, but PageRank was novel.
replywas it actually? I don't know the full technical behind this but wiki does suggest: "A search engine called "RankDex" from IDD Information Services, designed by Robin Li in 1996, developed a strategy for site-scoring and page-ranking.."
replyThis is before Google.
Correct
replyStealing an idea is different from lying to people in order to steal their actual business, which is more like what Zuckerberg did.
replyDid he really steal the idea? I thought the idea was just a message board for Harvard students. That isn’t novel.
replyIf he didn’t steal anything why did winklevoss and another person at Harvard involved in the original project get a pay off…?
replyDo 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.
The original idea was this:
reply>I almost want to put some of these faces next to pictures of farm animals and have people vote on which is more attractive.