In 2013, Mark Zuckerberg said it Twitter, “[It] is such a mess - it's as if they drove a clown car into a gold mine and fell in.” But hang on, ten years later, he’s mining for that gold.
Mark Zuckerberg the billionaire founder of Facebook is no doubt an incredible entrepreneur. But his critics are fixated on one thing - he has a habit of copying his social media competitors. Threads is probably the most salient example of that last week - cause let’s face it - it's a Twitter clone.
It has been the unavoidable headline of the past week, but in today’s episode we wanted to dig a little deeper. Sascha and Alec discuss the story behind Threads and ask a big question that we were left with when we realised Threads was pretty much a clone of Twitter. What are the rules around just copying your competitors products?
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