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117. Founder of Friendster and Nuzzel, Jonathan Abrams

2016/9/18
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Jonathan Abrams was the founder of the first modern social networking site, Friendster. This is essentially the story of the birth of social media… the ideas that inspired the very notion of social networking, the struggles to launch a web startup after the dotcom bubble burst, the challenges of suddenly becoming the hottest startup in the world, and the eventual battles with MySpace and Facebook for social as we know it today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy) for more information.

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