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>Zuckerberg knows they need to create or acquire the next big thing to make it in the long Isn't that exactly what yahoo did?
Well! They are not just buying but improving it as well. Whatsapp and Instagram are the best example. Yahoo could not keep up the quality of any product that was acquired by them.
From reading some of the stuff Yahoo put out back in their prime. I always got the sense that they thought they would never fall and were maybe a bit invincible. I think Zuckerberg and Facebook in general, are very aware that Facebook is on the decline, they need to diversify. That's why they bought Instagram and used it to flight Snap. That's why they spent such an insane amount on WhatsApp. Zuckerberg knows they ne…
>Zuckerberg knows they need to create or acquire the next big thing to make it in the long Isn't that exactly what yahoo did?
Zuck smartly buys his competitors.
> A senior marketer for a large American bank says Facebook has made mistakes on measuring engagement, reach, views and other data for no fewer than 43 products. All of the mistakes, he notes, worked in the social-networking giant’s favour. “If these were true errors, wouldn’t you expect at least half to benefit marketers?” he asks. He expects to reduce how much his firm spends on Facebook and predicts that other mar…
Wait, Facebook has over 43 products? What are they?
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Well! They are not just buying but improving it as well. Whatsapp and Instagram are the best example. Yahoo could not keep up the quality of any product that was acquired by them.
How is WhatsApp “improved” by reducing privacy and adding ads?
From reading some of the stuff Yahoo put out back in their prime. I always got the sense that they thought they would never fall and were maybe a bit invincible. I think Zuckerberg and Facebook in general, are very aware that Facebook is on the decline, they need to diversify. That's why they bought Instagram and used it to flight Snap. That's why they spent such an insane amount on WhatsApp. Zuckerberg knows they ne…
> A senior marketer for a large American bank says Facebook has made mistakes on measuring engagement, reach, views and other data for no fewer than 43 products. All of the mistakes, he notes, worked in the social-networking giant’s favour. “If these were true errors, wouldn’t you expect at least half to benefit marketers?” he asks. He expects to reduce how much his firm spends on Facebook and predicts that other mar…
Wait, Facebook has over 43 products? What are they?
Yahoo failed, in part, because its competitors were better. Being better than Facebook doesn't mean just replicating its technology, it means having a better social graph. That's a hard problem to solve.
From reading some of the stuff Yahoo put out back in their prime. I always got the sense that they thought they would never fall and were maybe a bit invincible. I think Zuckerberg and Facebook in general, are very aware that Facebook is on the decline, they need to diversify. That's why they bought Instagram and used it to flight Snap. That's why they spent such an insane amount on WhatsApp. Zuckerberg knows they ne…
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>Zuckerberg knows they need to create or acquire the next big thing to make it in the long Isn't that exactly what yahoo did?
They turned down buying Google. Zuck smartly buys his competitors.
It wasn't clear at the time Google would be any kind of success, you are looking at things with hindsight.
There are plenty of short sellers who would benefit from FB’s plummeting stock. In reality, FB’s DAU/MAU are largely unchanged. The stories that young people “deleted Facebook” were downright falsehood. There is simply no viable competition for Facebook in market right now like what Yahoo had in terms of Google.