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Note that GP didn’t say Meta, the trillion-dollar company, they said Facebook, the social platform that won its generation of social platforms. One of those platforms was bound to win, just by the interconnected nature of social networks, and I think reasonable people can disagree on whether that success sets you up inevitably to make a trillion dollars or not.

Web 2.0 -> inevitable social interaction platforms -> inevitable network effects -> inevitable advertising magnet.

Who knows, it could've been MySpace Tom?

facebook is just a glorified blogpost website