
340: ‘Billionaires Have Beefs’, With Tom Watson and Daniel Agee
The Talk Show With John Gruber
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Facebook's Focus Is on Growth, Not Growth
facebook bought instagram for a billion dollars, and in the subsequent years, had guided it in a way that, lack of a better focus group, the three of us would have found more appealing. I think face books focus is entirely on growth. It's venture capital, growth at all costs, expansion. That's like, incredibly important to its business and its model. And that's why it's shifting its every product decision gets focused through that lens. Like with glass, we needed to focus on a different direction, which just so happend to be a neglected group of people. But you no, itink, that's where the lens is. Write, like the wonderful, beautiful
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