Friendster, every mention

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▶ 29:00 Ben Gilbert Friendster had real scale and grew really fast.
▶ 29:06 Ben Gilbert Friendster is like the butt of a lot of jokes, but it exploded out of the gates.
▶ 41:24 Ben Gilbert And Friendsters out there.
▶ 49:19 Ben Gilbert Friendster existed.
▶ 1:01:32 Ben Gilbert 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.
▶ 1:01:50 Ben Gilbert So even anything that's n squared is contained within that school, and their servers aren't falling over and taking twenty-plus seconds to load pages the way that the friendsters of the world are.
▶ 1:23:14 Ben Gilbert They actually knew each other because Reid was an early investor in Friendster.
▶ 1:24:58 Ben Gilbert And they're kind of conflicted, both with Friendster and LinkedIn.
▶ 1:43:13 Ben Gilbert If you think about what Friendster and MySpace were, you could upload a limited set of photos, which, by the way, you'd have to delete one to add another.
▶ 1:59:05 Ben Gilbert And you compare all the metrics with Friendster and Myspace as time went on got worse.
▶ 1:59:21 Ben Gilbert Friendster just was not architected properly.
▶ 1:59:37 Ben Gilbert And so, as you sort of looked at not the high level metrics of how many users have ever signed up, because MySpace and Friendster, I think we're still way ahead at this point.

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