• ch00f@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    My point is …what was the plan before COVID? What did VR have to do with social networking?

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      4 days ago

      I don’t think he had a plan in the beginning. These people aren’t pioneers. They got lucky once, get labeled as a trend setter and then you have to try and maintain that image. VR was going the next big thing, so Zuck bought a company without a plan. Tech companies do that all the time. They see themselves falling behind on something and just buy some random company to appease the shareholders/press.

      The VR office thing was just the limits of Zuck own creativity and saw covid as an opportunity to keep their product relevant.