Currier: Google was 8th to market and Facebook was 156th
James Currier · 20VC: How To Balance Between Vision and Stubbornness, Why Speed Is The Most Important Startup Superpower & The Main Role of A Startup Founder Today with James Currier, Managing Director @ NFX · Dec 13, 2017 · at 5:57
James Currier, Managing Director at NFX, argues that major tech successes were rarely first movers, citing Google and Facebook as examples.
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“You know, then you look at your next great success, Google, they were the eighth to market. You look at Facebook, they were the 156th to market with the same five features.”
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