The story of how Google could have killed Facebook with the flick of a switch
February 13, 2021 3 Minutes As we near the end of this decade, and more importantly the end of the hell that was 2020, I realised two things. First, I survived catching Covid-19, and secondly that I had a good story about the history of Silicon Valley that I’d never written down. I’m still functional, so here, for perpetuity, is my tale. Back in 2013 I was working in the Ads Interfaces organisation at Facebook, building mostly front end products (other people did the AI, database etc). We had an application called Power Editor which was the kitchen sink of products, and 25% of al...
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