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You don’t realise it, but we’re in a race between technology and politics, and technologists are winning. They’re way ahead.
My next thing could be something in hardware. It’s never been easier to turn bits into atoms.
All the early Facebook employees have their story of the moment when they saw the light and realized that Facebook wasn’t some measly social network like MySpace but a dream of a different human experience.
I was at Facebook in 2012, during the previous presidential race. The fact that Facebook could easily throw the election by selectively showing a Get Out the Vote reminder in certain counties of a swing state, for example, was a running joke.
If you’re a small startup considering selling your company, there’s definitely far worse places to work than Facebook.
FBX was my baby that I staked everything on. We shipped it fast, scaled it up, and now the baby talks and can walk to school, but I don’t feel I need to babysit it.
Cubans can be as conversant as any Netflix-and-chill American about popular shows like ‘House of Cards’ or ‘Black Mirror’, and they drop allusions to the ‘Lannisters’ and ‘Omar Little’ constantly.
In Silicon Valley, where I worked at companies like Facebook and Twitter for the earlier part of this decade, Cuba was generally regarded, when it was regarded at all, as a technological curiosity.
If the world really does end, there aren’t going to be many places to run.
Part of any acquisition process is what’s loosely called ‘due diligence.’ Taking both technical and legal forms, it’s the snooping around an acquiring company does to make sure it’s actually getting what it thinks it is.
Facebook deploys a political advertising sales team, specialized by political party and charged with convincing deep-pocketed politicians that they do have the kind of influence needed to alter the outcome of elections.
At the Facebook engineering level are some of the smartest people I’ve ever worked with.
The harsh reality is this: to have influence in the world, you need to be willing and able to reward your friends and punish your enemies.
Converting Facebook data into money is harder than it sounds, mostly because the vast bulk of your user data is worthless. Turns out your blotto-drunk party pics and flirty co-worker messages have no commercial value whatsoever.
