Holy mimic batman - Mark, its ok to have a little of your own innovation and not copycat nor buy every single good idea.

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darth_avocado 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> not copycat nor buy every single good idea.

I don’t know if I’ll call Kalshi and Polymarket “good ideas”.

	▲	aeve890 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I bet (pun intended) that's pretty good for the owners pockets
	▲	Ancalagon 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		fair point

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ahstilde 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Facebook innovation is their ads algo. They copy existing consumer success (which is incredibly difficult to create), and then execute it incredibly well.

	▲	dgellow 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> and then execute it incredibly well ...sometimes

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soperj 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How did he come up with Facebook?

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ben_w 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

He copied the analog thing of the same name in his university that was taking too long to digitise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_book

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soperj 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There's a whole movie about it. He was employed to create a social media platform, and ended up stealing the code to do it for himself instead.

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gowld 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It was already digitized. He wanted to make a version without security and privacy protections.

He also copied Friendster.

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Ancalagon 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I dont think he did

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soperj 5 hours ago | parent [-]

yes.

	▲	SirFatty 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		no.