[pchristensen]

Just to be clear, "Apollo" here is the Apollo space program that invented and manufactured space flight and moon landing and return, over 13 years, in inflation-adjusted dollars. Through all the Meta-verse skepticism, I kept thinking that the payoff could be worth it if they capture the next big platform. But this put the scale of the investment in context, and now I doubt that even the wildest success will payoff for $250B of spending. And that's not even counting the opportunity cost of what else FB could do with that money.

[throwthere]

The $250 billion spend is "projected" over 10 years by the commentator.

Would META spend $25 billion/year indefinitely without earning a profit? I don't know but other scenarios seem plausible too.

[nicolashahn]

As long as Zuck is in charge, yes.

[gordon_freeman]

This. The problem with Meta is that nobody can confront Zuck and remind him that this is really a bad idea RoI wise. Zuck is unhinged and makes the decisions as he pleases even at the company of this scale.

[a123b456c]

That's what they said about libra, about marketplace, about...

[csomar]

Libra was killed externally by regulators. It is a solid idea, however. FB marketplace is a big thing is some markets.