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Mark Zuckerberg directed Meta to create a prediction markets app

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Re: Mark Zuckerberg directed Meta to create a prediction markets app

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post #91

Smartphone Dating Cryptocurrency AR/VR AI Gambling This man struck gold exactly once with social media and, rather than being content with his billions, will forever chase that high pursuing the latest fad and drag his company through failure over and over again.

He's a bit of a wuss though. Not betting it all, just slowly iterating on the next miss, can never be fired. Pretty damn funny actually. Sad if you work there though.

> He's a bit of a wuss though

No no no, didn’t you see the MMA training. He’s a real tough guy. Very masculine and strong.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg directed Meta to create a prediction markets app

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post #91

Smartphone Dating Cryptocurrency AR/VR AI Gambling This man struck gold exactly once with social media and, rather than being content with his billions, will forever chase that high pursuing the latest fad and drag his company through failure over and over again.

He's a bit of a wuss though. Not betting it all, just slowly iterating on the next miss, can never be fired. Pretty damn funny actually. Sad if you work there though.

Okay, imagine if he did, he would've lost everything 4 times

Re: Mark Zuckerberg directed Meta to create a prediction markets app

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post #91

Smartphone Dating Cryptocurrency AR/VR AI Gambling This man struck gold exactly once with social media and, rather than being content with his billions, will forever chase that high pursuing the latest fad and drag his company through failure over and over again.

He has already finished the game and just explores the side quests. He is more than content, he’s way more content than the rest of us.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg directed Meta to create a prediction markets app

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post #91

Smartphone Dating Cryptocurrency AR/VR AI Gambling This man struck gold exactly once with social media and, rather than being content with his billions, will forever chase that high pursuing the latest fad and drag his company through failure over and over again.

all he needs to do is put a competent CEO

Agreed that Zuck is not very impressive, but what would another CEO do differently at this point? It's got a ton of money, and they are trying this and that. But the market wouldn't let them sit on a bunch of money either.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg directed Meta to create a prediction markets app

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post #87

Facebook leadership is essentially a cat reacting to a laser pointer. There seems to be no shiny object they won't chase. Their own C-Suite admit their latest reorganization is a disaster. Their "all in" on virtual worlds was a disaster. Their billion dollar AI guru purchase was a disaster. Their influencer heavy connected glasses will be a disaster. There is no leadership here. However, you can be sure when the next…

Fail fast and iterate.

Wait no, not like that.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg directed Meta to create a prediction markets app

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post #91

Smartphone Dating Cryptocurrency AR/VR AI Gambling This man struck gold exactly once with social media and, rather than being content with his billions, will forever chase that high pursuing the latest fad and drag his company through failure over and over again.

The guy has zero imagination, I guess. Even Facebook was a stolen and mostly unoriginal idea, it was just executed well for that era. I can only feel sad for him, all the money in the world yet not a single creative or interesting idea to allocate it on. And the unoriginal things it is allocated on end up being pretty bad most of the time.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg directed Meta to create a prediction markets app

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post #87

Facebook leadership is essentially a cat reacting to a laser pointer. There seems to be no shiny object they won't chase. Their own C-Suite admit their latest reorganization is a disaster. Their "all in" on virtual worlds was a disaster. Their billion dollar AI guru purchase was a disaster. Their influencer heavy connected glasses will be a disaster. There is no leadership here. However, you can be sure when the next…

Sometimes I'm astonished how far they made it. But then again, they made their fortune by selling personal data to bad actors who manipulate opinions for polling and do all sorts of questionable dealings with it. And from there, they simply bought their competitors and maintained an extractive monopoly for people using social media for advertisement.

It's pretty much impossible that anything organic or creative could be created by Facebook at this point.

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