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Pujji: Facebook Shut Down a Nine-Figure Sticker Business as Too Small
“That was like a nine-figure business they shut down. Because Zuckerberg's like, eh, it's too small.”
Noah Kagan was fired as Facebook's 30th employee for leaking expansion plans
“Noah gets into this section by sharing his experience as a twenty-four-year-old being hired as Facebook's 30th employee and subsequently being fired for leaking information about the company's expansion plans beyond colleges while he was partying at Coachella.”
The youngest top-10 global companies, Tesla and Meta, are twenty years old
“The two babies of the 10 largest companies in the world are Tesla and Meta or Facebook, which were founded in 2003 and 2004. So the youngest companies of the 10 largest in the world were founded 20 years ago.”
Lieberman: Facebook acquired TBH for $100M just three months after its founding
“Nikita founded an app called TBH and he built it in 2017. He was three months into building the company And Facebook acquired it for a hundred million dollars. And then in 2018, it was like nine to 12 months after they bought TBH, Facebook shut it down.”
Paid digital customer acquisition costs have risen significantly in recent years
“There's also never been more pressure to launch new products as today because the cost to acquire customers through paid marketing, Facebook ads, Instagram ads, Snapchat ads, Has risen significantly over the last several years.”