[ganeshkrishnan]

Yes that's true that him being an Indian hastened the adoption but mostly because he knew what the pain points were and how best to get started.

However, he is hardly a celebrity in India. Google has been popular here much before he became a CEO.

Also what damaged FB was the tweet by Marc :http://www.forbes.com/sites/saritharai/2016/02/10/marc-andre...

Directly implying that India was better off colonized.

[nnain]

That tweet, omg! Marc Andreessen got hit so hard because of it that he apologized on his Twitter account and said he won't participate on any political discussion about India again. I like his work, but the particular tweet was grotesque.

However the tweet came late. The activism against FB's Free Basics was in full force already.