{"id":225351,"date":"2017-05-08T15:43:11","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T07:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=225351"},"modified":"2017-05-08T15:43:11","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T07:43:11","slug":"the-audacity-of-copying-well-stratechery-by-ben-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=225351","title":{"rendered":"The Audacity of Copying Well \u2013 Stratechery by Ben Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A year later Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg did what he should have done instead of releasing Poke, offering $3 billion to buy Snapchat outright, but it was already too late: Snapchat founder and CEO Evan Spiegel, perhaps emboldened by the then-widespread realization that Instagram had sold too early, turned the offer down, leaving Facebook to try its hand at Slingshot, another Snapchat clone; that failed too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/stratechery.com\/2016\/the-audacity-of-copying-well\/\">The Audacity of Copying Well \u2013 Stratechery by Ben Thompson<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year later Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg did what he should have done instead of releasing Poke, offering $3 billion to buy Snapchat outright, but it was already too late: Snapchat founder and CEO Evan Spiegel, perhaps emboldened by the then-widespread realization that Instagram had sold too early, turned the offer down, leaving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225352,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225351\/revisions\/225352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}