Will Facebook End Up Like Netscape?
Both TechCrunch and VentureBeat transcribed an interesting interview this weekend with Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, who spoke at Y Combinator's School for Startups in Berkeley on how Facebook got started. I think that intentionally or not, Zuckerberg, now 25, has done a lot of things right. He said he launched Facebook at schools that were "least receptive" to test the product; always works to build something that users want (investor Peter Thiel told him, "Don't mess it up"); limited growth when the economy got bad so Facebook could get cash-flow positive; and tries to make sure that employees are always learning -- even when that means they might not stay at Facebook forever. What interested me most, though, was the advice that Zuckerberg said he took from Netscape founder Marc Andreessen.
