Meta

Meta is a company everyone knows (literally, everyone). But,
somehow, it’s also a company that few people feel they actually
understand. Their products are used by more humans than any
other’s in history — almost half of the entire world’s population
daily. But… what is Meta? Why do they do what they do? How do
they do what they do? Ask ten people and you’ll likely get ten
very different sets of answers.


Today, we dive deeper than we’ve ever gone trying to find
Acquired’s answers to those questions. And after months of
research and 6+ hours of incredible stories about how they (and
really “they” being Mark himself) bet it all and win time and
time again in the face of overwhelming odds, we arrive at our
answers. Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Threads, AI, Oculus,
Orion, it’s all here. Tune in for one of the greatest corporate
stories of all time: Meta, a Mark Zuckerberg Production.


Sponsors:


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Our past episodes on Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, Snapchat,
the Snap IPO, TikTok, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and the Mark Zuckerberg
Interview

Worldly Partners: Meta multi-decade study

Episode sources



Carve Outs:


Ben Cohen’s piece on NotebookLM

Mr. McMahon

The Dwarkesh Podcast



 


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