[reaperducer]

His insight into jumping to mobile at the very beginning

Wha? This is revisionist history.

Facebook was very late to having a mobile app. It was widely ridiculed for a very long time for not having an iPhone app, and when it did finally get one, it was so bad that it was practically unusable for at least two years.

I remember a number of friends and family members giving up on Facebook because its app was so slow, bad, and buggy, even on the newest phones. My wife upgraded to a new phone just because the Facebook app was so awful, and she was so disappointed to find out that the problem wasn't the phone, it was Facebook.

[davnn]

They were betting on web technologies instead of native, which was quoted as early Mark Zuckerberg's biggest mistake [1].

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2012/09/11/mark-zuckerberg-our-bigges...

[qwytw]

Technically Apple made the same mistake but realized and mostly fixed it in half a year or so.