[ethbr1]

It feels like Facebook will be written as a warning business case in allowing a single person to retain too much decision making control.

Zuckerberg had 2.5 good ideas: Facebook (shared), prioritizing mobile early, and buying competing social platforms with high growth

Everything else they've thrown big money at has been a dumpster fire.

[JKCalhoun]

Worst still, they destroyed social media, perhaps even contributed to destroying mobile (destroyed in the sense that, well, they became dumpster fires).

[ethbr1]

I'm not sure a growth-obsessed Facebook could have done anything other than destroy social media, in the same way that a growth-obsessed Google couldn't have done anything other than destroy the web.

The only plausible alternate reality I can see would have been one where US anti-trust was vigorously enforced and kept Instagram and WhatsApp from being bought.

But that would have required expansions of US anti-trust law to allow for more proactive deployment.

[rbanffy]

> But that would have required expansions of US anti-trust law to allow for more proactive deployment.

A nice hint for legislators to come.