MySpace Tom beat Facebook in the long run - by Jeremy Gordon

[nandibear]

This is a little off topic but still a very worthwhile read:

MySpace Tom beat Facebook in the long run
Theoutline.com
by Jeremy Gordon
published April 11, 2018

Excerpt:

Wouldn’t you rather be a rich nobody than whatever Mark Zuckerberg is? ...

Back in 2005, though, long before MySpace burned out, its founder, Tom Anderson — whose grinning face greeted every new user as their first “friend” — sold the site for $580 million to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. While his site was becoming a punchline during the rise of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and the other social media networks we now use everyday, Anderson disappeared entirely from the tech scene. Now, he travels the world, documenting his visits to exotic locations.

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Read entire article: theoutline.com/post/4137/myspace-tom-mark-zuckerberg-facebook