[Ancalagon]

Holy mimic batman - Mark, its ok to have a little of your own innovation and not copycat nor buy every single good idea.

[darth_avocado]

> not copycat nor buy every single good idea.

I don’t know if I’ll call Kalshi and Polymarket “good ideas”.

[aeve890]

I bet (pun intended) that's pretty good for the owners pockets

[Ancalagon]

fair point

[ahstilde]

Facebook innovation is their ads algo. They copy existing consumer success (which is incredibly difficult to create), and then execute it incredibly well.

[dgellow]

> and then execute it incredibly well

...sometimes

[soperj]

How did he come up with Facebook?

[ben_w]

He copied the analog thing of the same name in his university that was taking too long to digitise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_book

[soperj]

There's a whole movie about it. He was employed to create a social media platform, and ended up stealing the code to do it for himself instead.

[gowld]

It was already digitized. He wanted to make a version without security and privacy protections.

He also copied Friendster.

[Ancalagon]

I dont think he did

[soperj]

yes.

[SirFatty]

no.