The Ledger
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Facebook Killed Twitter's Vine Platform by Blocking Video Sharing
“Facebook effectively killed off fine by preventing that from being shared, which was Twitter's video platform. Facebook wanted to own video.”
Baker: Google JAX and Meta PyTorch teams fought publicly on X until leaders called truce
“The JAX team at Google got into a giant fight with the PyTorch team on Meta on X, and the heads of each company's respective AI division had to make a public truce and instruct their troops to stop fighting.”
Crypto startups cannot rely on Facebook or Google for customer acquisition
“Many of the traditional customer acquisition channels you can't use like Facebook and Google don't make it easy to advertise crypto things. You just can't use those channels.”
Dixon: Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram pay zero ad revenue to creators
“Twitter and Facebook have zero dollar revenue share. Instagram is zero dollars. So Instagram makes all their money on advertising. They pay zero out to the creators.”
Dorsey: Meta Became Wildly Undervalued Trading at Nine Times EBIT in 2022
“It certainly got wildly undervalued at one point in late 22 when it was nine times EBIT.”
Wolfe: Meta acquired CTRL-labs for slightly under $1 billion
“Coincidentally, Meta bought that for a little under a billion dollars, started by this guy Reardon.”
Facebook's social good team created Amber Alerts and voter registration features
“The last team I worked on was something called the social good and goodwill team. And that team was tasked with a pretty interesting mandate, which was go do good things in the world using the size, scale, and advantage that Facebook has, but don't worry about…”