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03-27-2017, 05:02 AM
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TIL: In 2003, Google offered to buyout Friendster for $30 Million
Talk about a bad move.
Then again, hindsight is always 20/20. If I was the Canadian founder of Friendster, I would have:
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That is actually first social network, but they didnt bother much to update which resulted in failure, same as with myspace.
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03-27-2017, 05:49 AM
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I bet they made 30 million between then and now.
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03-27-2017, 01:51 PM
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03-27-2017, 02:28 PM
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true , friendster owned the Philippines market and hi5 owned thai markets... now look at them both... ouch
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03-27-2017, 07:43 PM
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Definitely one of the precursors to today's social networks. Classmates.com is Aldo another site that predates the MySpace/Facebook era. They have not folded but could have been much larger has they adapted.
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03-27-2017, 08:12 PM
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I seem to recall a story about how the owner of Friendster had all of these big ideas, but his investors wouldn't allow any of it.
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03-27-2017, 08:14 PM
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Orkut was huge in India and Brazil. Google did not see a future for it hahaaha.
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03-29-2017, 11:14 AM
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I would take the money and run...how much money does a guy need?
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03-29-2017, 01:47 PM
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 So you sell for 30, a year later its worth a 100 ? 
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