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Wow -- stunning. Thanks for sharing.

Everything was really lined up well for him to take advantage of, eh? The student population was excited and waiting for such a platform -- with the same name too.

Mark's right though from his quote: “I can do it better than they can, and I can do it in a week.” - you can certainly launch things much more quickly if you don't take into account any concerns that others worry about/want to take into account -- like the privacy and security of people's information.

It's no surprise this is where we are today: people who think ahead and want to be careful because of ethics, all the way to him taking the idea, implementing it - while deceiving/leading on the brothers who hired him vs. the foundation of Facebook and the Cambridge Analytica happenings.

I wonder if he'll ever understand this himself, and how grave this all is.



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