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re: Is this the greatest financial blunder of all-time?
Posted on 2/20/18 at 9:03 pm to AUsteriskPride
Posted on 2/20/18 at 9:03 pm to AUsteriskPride
How many users did facebook have in 2005?
0
Posted on 2/20/18 at 9:04 pm to AUsteriskPride
quote:IBM allowing Bill Gates to be a middleman instead of going to the inventor of DOS himself
greatest financial blunder of all-time
Posted on 2/20/18 at 9:05 pm to AUsteriskPride
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$580,000,000 $500,000,000,000
My space=frick you money
FaceBook=says frick you to frick you money
Posted on 2/20/18 at 9:09 pm to Havoc
quote:this
MySpace sold a few months later for US$580 million, so I think he's okay with things
Posted on 2/20/18 at 9:09 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
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Had MySpace bought Facebook, there is no way to know if Facebook would have grown to what it is today.
MySpace could’ve absorbed it and continued to suck.
I think Zuckerberg has the special sauce.
This.
MySpace didn't have the same vision as Facebook.. Which is why FB made MySpace irrelevant.
Posted on 2/20/18 at 9:12 pm to Kafka
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IBM allowing Bill Gates to be a middleman instead of going to the inventor of DOS himself
Gary Kidall, the developer of CP/M which was much more mature than DOS at the time, could have been the face of the most dominant software company today. What's to say that Seattle Computer Products would have been like Microsoft or if IBM bought the OS outright, been able to maintain it? Would IBM develop it into OS/2 without Microsoft's help?
Would have been interesting if that had happened.
Edit: Not to say Microsoft would have not been a major software company, probably not as dominant. They still had a lot of licensing agreements with their BASIC interpreter and produced software for other platforms, including the Mac in its early days.
This post was edited on 2/20/18 at 9:14 pm
Posted on 2/20/18 at 9:12 pm to AUsteriskPride
IBM let Bill Gates keep the rights to MSDos
Beat me to it.
Beat me to it.
This post was edited on 2/20/18 at 9:13 pm
Posted on 2/20/18 at 9:13 pm to AUsteriskPride
This one time i paid a CL hooker's pimp 100 bucks and she never showed up
Massive blunder
I bought rose pedals and scented candles and everything
Ended up jacking it in a room smelling like lavender vanilla while Ginuwine's Pony was playing on my mix cd
Massive blunder
I bought rose pedals and scented candles and everything
Ended up jacking it in a room smelling like lavender vanilla while Ginuwine's Pony was playing on my mix cd
Posted on 2/20/18 at 9:14 pm to AUsteriskPride
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I'm assuming he would have allowed MZ to continue running the company.
Why?
Posted on 2/20/18 at 9:15 pm to hillrosetiger
wow, I like the man's integrity though.
Posted on 2/20/18 at 9:18 pm to AUsteriskPride
Yahoo, said no to buying Google for 1 million
Posted on 2/20/18 at 9:22 pm to Peazey
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Why?
Buying controlling interest in a business does not mean you have to work it. Granted there's no telling, he might have forced adds on it too soon. Regardless, I think Facebook would still be almost as big. It just seems to be an addictive platform (which is why I never used it).
Posted on 2/20/18 at 9:22 pm to StringedInstruments
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At that point, who gives a shite?
Everyone worth only $580MM.
Posted on 2/20/18 at 9:26 pm to Havoc
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Well MySpace sold a few months later for US$580 million, so I think he's okay with things.
Whoever bought MySpace for $580M might be the answer to OP’s question.
Or maybe the natives who sold Manhattan for some butt plugs and cock rings.
Posted on 2/20/18 at 9:29 pm to AUsteriskPride
All these new age tech companies....they’ll all fail built on flimsy whimsy bull shite. Gotta go my horse buggy just got here
Posted on 2/20/18 at 9:41 pm to TheArrogantCorndog
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Ended up jacking it in a room smelling like lavender vanilla while Ginuwine's Pony was playing on my mix cd
Now this is a good line. Have an upvote my baw.
Posted on 2/20/18 at 9:46 pm to SG_Geaux
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IBM let Bill Gates keep the rights to MSDos
Still not as bad as the guy on here last week who paid 50k for a Ford Explorer.
Posted on 2/20/18 at 9:48 pm to AUsteriskPride
AOL - Time Warner merger. Worst business acquisition of all time.
Posted on 2/20/18 at 9:53 pm to BigPerm30
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Now this is a good line. Have an upvote my baw.
Thanks baw... if only it weren't true
Posted on 2/20/18 at 10:03 pm to AUsteriskPride
Definitely one of biggest missed opportunities ever.
But I'd also like to nominate Kim Bassinger buying a whole town and going bankrupt.
But I'd also like to nominate Kim Bassinger buying a whole town and going bankrupt.
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