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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where MySpace comes up
Meta (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 49:17 Ben Gilbert Myspace existed.
- ▶ 1:02:28 David Rosenthal Everything you were just talking about that Friendster couldn't do and that Myspace couldn't do.
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 1:43:21 David Rosenthal So MySpace only allowed you to have eight photos maximum at the time.
- ▶ 1:47:02 David Rosenthal I mean, certainly Flickr, Myspace, Friendster couldn't hold a candle to that type of engagement.
- ▶ 1:57:27 Ben Gilbert And also, a year before, MySpace had gotten bought for five hundred and eighty million dollars.
- ▶ 1:57:32 Ben Gilbert So it's like, geez, ok, twice as much as MySpace?
- ▶ 1:59:05 Ben Gilbert And you compare all the metrics with Friendster and Myspace as time went on got worse.
- ▶ 1:59:26 Ben Gilbert MySpace was this weird thing that was sort of born out of this combined media conglomerate, and they just never really had excellent tech architectural talent.
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 2:02:03 David Rosenthal They tried to do this with MySpace a little bit earlier, and they lost that deal to Google.
- ▶ 5:57:34 unnamed speaker Myspace and Friendster, Google+, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp.
- ▶ 6:02:58 unnamed speaker Mark even makes some comment about, well, actually the idea for Facebook wasn't even new because MySpace and Friendster existed.
Acquired LIVE from Chase Center (with Daniel Ek, Emily Chang, Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:27:22 David Rosenthal Uh, MySpace, Twitter Gen One, um, Instagram, Snapchat, WhatsApp, TikTok,
- ▶ 1:29:19 Mark Zuckerberg So, you know, you talk about, like, Friendster and MySpace and all the scaling challenges they had during the graph calculations of, like, all right, do you know this person?
- ▶ 1:29:31 David Rosenthal I mean, um, it seems quaint now, Friendster, MySpace, but you study computer science,
The Mark Zuckerberg Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 19:08 David Rosenthal Uh, MySpace, Twitter Gen One.
- ▶ 21:05 Mark Zuckerberg So, you know, you talk about, like, Friendster and MySpace and all the scaling challenges they had during the graph calculations of, like, all right, do you know this person?
- ▶ 21:18 David Rosenthal I mean, um, it seems quaint now, Friendster, MySpace, but you study computer science,
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:01:44 David Rosenthal MySpace was a social revolution.