fib16 t1_ja7qd3x wrote on February 27, 2023 at 1:53 PM

Reply to comment by RetroMetroShow in TIL of David Sarnoff, the head of RCA and NBC who suppressed and then stole FM radio and Television from their inventors, driving one to suicide and the other to alcoholism. by Dega704

The brothers who came up with Facebook were paid $100 million and live a life of luxury to this day. Feels a bit different than suicide and alcoholism.

HPmoni t1_ja8ve4x wrote on February 27, 2023 at 6:30 PM

Pretty sure they had an iffy case. There was MySpace.

fib16 t1_ja8wkii wrote on February 27, 2023 at 6:38 PM

Well. They pretty obviously came up with Facebook but an idea and execution are two very different things. Zuckerberg made it was it is. If the brothers did it themselves we may not have fb today. It may have died. So they’re lucky a smart person “stole” it and made it into a multibillion dollar company and they got paid a shit ton for it. They were lucky imo. They claimed they lost out on billions. I say they got paid just for their idea and doing nothing else.