1. They've developed and open sourced incredibly useful and cool tech

2. They have some really smart people working there

3. They're well run from a business/financial perspective, especially considering their lack of a hardware platform

4. They've survived multiple paradigm shifts, and generally picked the right bets

Among other things.

jopsen 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

0. Many people use Facebook messenger as primary contact book.

Even my parents are on Facebook messenger.

Convincing people to use signal is not easy, and there are lots of people I talk to whose phone number I don't have.

all of those are basically true for every big tech company

So we agree that Meta is at minimum the equal of every big tech company?

we agree that at maximum its the equal of every tech company

	▲	ethbr1 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		In what other metrics do other big tech companies exceed it, causing them to be ranked higher?