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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: evaluation
2 Nov 2016 Acquired Skype
“Which is hilarious to make that analogy because like, thinking about Facebook’s brief detour and Mark Zuckerberg and those guys ended doing Wirehog in the early days of Facebook, and actually being a competing priority, they almost didn’t do Facebook because they were focused on Wirehog.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- evaluation
- Recorded
- 2 Nov 2016
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Skype
Transcript context
…Yeah. It’s like the biggest thing on the internet. I mean, the internet is quite small at this point in time, but Kazaa basically owns the internet. They’re like Facebook. Which is hilarious to make that analogy because like, thinking about Facebook’s brief detour and Mark Zuckerberg and those guys ended doing Wirehog in the early days of Facebook, and actually being a competing priority, they almost didn’t do Facebook because they were focused on Wirehog. On Wirehog, yeah.…
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