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by UkrainianJew 1451 days ago
More like an ad company driven by dark patterns that needs to pretend being good and nice and innovative as otherwise it will lose goodwill just like Facebook did.
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I think the Google founders were inherently nicer people than the Facebook founder, but their companies ended up converging on advertising because that's really the only way their products could be profitable.
Is that really the only way to be profitable though?

I believe going public inevitably leads to needing to follow growth, which then eventually corrupts virtuous missions.