14 The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2017-09-17
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Product
“They still make you search, but you can do an empty search and get links to pages with every student's picture.”
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Focus
“To Eduardo, this was a betrayal, pure and simple.”
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People
“He was no longer part of the management team, no longer an employee, no longer connected in any way.”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: people.
Persistence
“Or maybe it was more than that, an almost symbiosis that had grown out of years and years of practice.”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: persistence.
Capital
“It's slightly obnoxious that they only let you view one picture at a time, and there's no way I'm gonna go to…”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: capital.
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