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Friendster: How They Blew It

Friendster: How They Blew It

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I just love this story - it has everything - Jonathan Abrams, a
young, smart coder from Canada, moved to California because he
wanted to be at the very heart of the internet boom. And on
nothing more than an intuition, a feeling of how things should be
online, he comes up with the framework for a social media
platform, the very same model that MySpace, Facebook and all the
others then learnt from or copied. But Abrams and Friendster were
first, and for a brief moment, they were the hottest property in
Silicon Valley - Google tried to buy them. VCs were desperate to
invest with them - and within just a few months, it all fell
apart, leaving the door wide open for MySpace and then Facebook.
It’s a fascinating story, enjoy