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by forgetme2020 1339 days ago
This article has to be good news for Youtube shorts and whatever Meta is doing in the way of short form videos
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Also Walmart is starting a content creation platform to compete with these.

[0]https://www.walmartcreator.com/splash

Man oh man

I should just wander the country starting half-assed clones of popular apps for clueless non-tech companies. I'll bet the CTO of Wal-Mart's video app division is doing pretty well for himself, a lot better than I am as a FAANG code monkey..

Not for nothing, and I don't know if it has changed in the last years, but I remember that Walmart's tech division was packed with brains that could easily rival anything in SV. They were just focused on different things.
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