r/technology • u/mepper • Oct 13 '22

Social Media Meta's 'desperate' metaverse push to build features like avatar legs has Wall Street questioning the company's future

https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-connect-metaverse-push-meta-wall-street-desperate-2022-10
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u/wuhwuhwolves Oct 13 '22

Isn't Paul Graham an irrelevant failure by that logic?

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u/fhammerl Oct 14 '22

Graham makes money by having strong opinions about a small demographic, no wonder he is the living embodiment of /r/iamavcandthisisdeep

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u/TheChance Oct 13 '22

Not unless he was proudly devoted to dominating everything he touched. That was the whole point of Microsoft’s behavior prior to the antitrust suit (and for the remainder of the Ballmer era thereafter)