Friendster
6 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Sep 28, 2022 by David Rosenthal · said 39 times in 6 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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brought up most by David Rosenthal (20), Ben Gilbert (13), Mark Zuckerberg (2), Peter Fenton (1)
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2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 32 mentions in 3 episodes 11 per episode
2022 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
Everything said about Friendster, oldest first
Sep 28, 2022
Friendster CEO Tim Koogle blocked Benchmark from investing in Facebook's Series A
“Specifically what happened was Benchmark had invested in Friendster, and so was conflicted out. Now you could argue that was an unavoidable mistake, you know, but like, boy does that hurt. And supposedly, I think it was Bob Kegel who was on the board of Friend…”
Oct 17, 2022 negative
Fenton: Well-executed bad ideas are dangerous because investors keep funding them
“It turns out that a bad idea well executed is a problem because then you give it more money. Or a good idea, poorly executed, well, that hurts because you think, oh, I mean, we can think of companies like Friendster and think, oh, but the bad idea of poorly ex…”
Oct 28, 2024
Oct 28, 2024
Oct 28, 2024 positive
Segmenting by School Solved Friendster's Server-Crashing n-Squared Problem
“Friendsters out there trying to compute second degree friends of friends, which is this crazy hard computer science problem, especially as the global number of people growing, it's an n squared problem. And Facebook is over here, or the Facebook at the time, i…”
Oct 28, 2024 positive
Gilbert: Facebook's Early Differentiator Was Authentic University-Verified Identity
“And that's what makes it different than all these other social networks. Myspace existed. Friendster existed. But anyone could sign up for these. And in part, that meant that they had more explosive growth, because there was no governor on the growth. And we'l…”