Chapter
The Complicated Mess of Facebook's Product and Code
14:21 - 23:24 (09:03)
Facebook's strategy is to take all their products and code, and measure them together in a complicated, convoluted mess, in order to prevent anyone from easily asking them to separate. The social graph is connected to the infrastructure layer, making it difficult to separate them, leading to complication with competitors like Google and Apple.
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Facebook's strategy is to combine all their products and code in a convoluted mess so that it would take years to separate them if ever required by the authorities.
14:21 - 20:44 (06:23)
Summary
Facebook's strategy is to combine all their products and code in a convoluted mess so that it would take years to separate them if ever required by the authorities. This strategy also includes the creation of a social graph and a connection between all the people users know.
ChapterThe Complicated Mess of Facebook's Product and Code
EpisodeE6: Big Tech antitrust aftermath, potential effects of an M&A clampdown on Silicon Valley & more
PodcastAll-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
There is a chilling effect on M&A that these hearings are going to have, even if Facebook has never broken up, or, or that deal is sort of retroactively challenged.
20:44 - 23:24 (02:39)
Summary
There is a chilling effect on M&A that these hearings are going to have, even if Facebook has never broken up, or, or that deal is sort of retroactively challenged. It forces the capital markets to support these companies.