Evidence receipt / observation
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: observation
28 Oct 2024 Acquired Meta
“At this point in time, they were showing ads, but the whole leadership team, at least I’m convinced, believed we are on the way to becoming a platform.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- observation
- Recorded
- 28 Oct 2024
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Meta
Transcript context
…The next year in 2008. Yeah, not yet. They really hadn’t gotten serious. She led them to figure out, hey, let’s survey all the business models, do some work on each of them and figure out and commit to being an ads company. At this point in time, they were showing ads, but the whole leadership team, at least I’m convinced, believed we are on the way to becoming a platform. 100%. May 24th, 2007, Facebook holds its first developer conference to launch their developer platform, F8, which again, let’s take a step back, this whole idea is wild. A developer platform on the web. The web is a developer platform. Facebook is now becoming a platform on top of an open developer platform.…
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