Dark Truth of Social Media Business: How Mark Zuckerberg Became a Billionaire?

It took Facebook 852 days to reach 10 million users. It took Twitter 780 days to reach 10 million users. But Instagram has acquired 10 million users in just 355 days. But, Threads by Instagram has acquired 10 million users in just 7 hours. Amazing, right? And in fact, in just 5 days, Threads has acquired 100 million users. And it has legitimately ended its competition. No competition. But, as they say, once a cheater, always a cheater. A dog's tail can never be straightened. You must have heard many such phrases. And in today's video, I'm going to show you a living example of these phrases. We all know that Mark Zuckerberg rules over social media. Out of the mostly used social media platforms, he already owned three major platforms. And now, he owns the fourth one also. Actually, Mark Zuckerberg has established his entire business on two very clear principles. The first principle, buy and kill your competition. And if you cannot buy, then the second option, copy and kill the competition. From copying ConnectU in 2004 to copying Twitter in 2023. Today, you're going to see how Mark Zuckerberg is almost like a digital mafia who is using his ultimate evil business tactics to control the entire social media. In today's time, everyone knows Mark Zuckerberg. But Tyler Winklevoss, Cameron Winklevoss and Divya Narendra, have you ever heard of these three people? If you're wondering who these three people are, then listen carefully. You might lose your mind after hearing the truth. These three people were the first to come up with the Facebook idea. Yes, Mark Zuckerberg is not the real founder of Facebook. What? Mark Zuckerberg is not the real founder of Facebook. What? Mark Zucker... I've said it twice. Are you deaf? The story begins in 2003, when Winklevoss brothers and Divya Narendra came up with an idea that could change the internet. The idea was of a social network site that could connect Harvard students and their alumni. But the biggest problem in completing this was that none of these three knew how to code. After searching for many days, they found a coder whose name was Victor Gao. He started working, but as soon as the exams started, Victor also left this project. But before leaving, he suggested a name which was already very famous on Harvard's campus. The name was Mark Zuckerberg. Mark was already very famous on Harvard's campus because of his crazy coding skills, and he used to create weird websites in just a few days. Facemash was a similar website that compared people's photos based on their looks. But soon it was banned because it genuinely created a lot of problems on campus. But Mark's coding skills and his love for computer science Winklevoss Brothers and Divya Narendra gave him the job. In the beginning, Mark was very interested in working on this idea. But slowly, the sun of interest set, and he didn't know when. Because something else was going on in Mark's mind. Inspired by this idea of Harvard Connections, Mark started working on a big project called Facebook. Mark deliberately started avoiding Harvard Connections, or you can also call it ConnectU, so that Facebook comes first and proves better. And exactly three months later, on 4th Feb, 2004, Facebook was launched for Harvard students. Winklevoss Brothers and Divya Narendra's idea was live in front of them, and it was gaining popularity. In the coming years, Facebook became very popular. And in the coming years, it became a multi-billion dollar company, whose valuation today is $800 billion, which is around 64 lakh crores. Now, as I told you in the beginning, once a cheater, always a cheater. How can a person who had put his company's knee on cheating and copying, stop? As Facebook grew bigger, the stories of copying and cheating also increased. Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Reddit, Twitch, and many other social media apps, either were sold to them, or were destroyed by them. And if neither of them could do it, then the major features of those apps were copied and launched. Today, the four social media apps of the App Store, which are used the most, are owned by Mark Zuckerberg. There are more than 4 billion people on these apps, in which you and I, both of us come. And whether you know it or not, these apps track even your movements, and store all the data, which are later used to advertise you. Just think about it, if you have information about every person in the world, what they like, what they don't like, how much they earn, where they spend money, where they are, where they want to go, what kind of house they want, what kind of car they want, what kind of songs they like, what kind of clothes they like, everything. So, won't it be easy for you to manipulate them? The same thing is done by Mark Zuckerberg's company, Meta. It enables all the data from Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, so that they can know you well, and show you the kind of ads, which you really need, or you really like. So that you can't stop yourself, and the transaction gets completed in a few minutes. Have you ever noticed that you talk about something, for example, you are talking to your friend, about the models of a new car, and after a while, you see the same car's ad on some social media. Strange, right? Do you ever feel that all these apps listen to you? Are your cameras and microphones being accessed for the benefit of these companies? Do let me know in the comments, if you have ever felt this way. There is an English saying, if you are getting something for free, you are the product. The same is true in the case of Meta. Every product of Meta is continuously stealing our data. And by using all these apps, we are giving them access to all our data every minute. But what can we do? Today, we are so dependent on these apps, that we can't even boycott them completely, and the biggest problem is that, there is no alternative or competitor in the market. Today, Meta dominates social media completely, because there is no direct competitor of Meta, who can stand next to it and regulate its space. And even if someone tries to regulate the space, Mark destroys them with his evil business tactics. Today, Mark Zuckerberg is known as the destroyer in the Silicon Valley. Whenever someone tries to grow a new social media in the Silicon Valley, either Mark Zuckerberg buys it, or copies the same social media and launches it as a product of his company. This has happened not just once, but with hundreds of companies. In a previous video, I have told you the whole story of Instagram, how Kevin Sistrom started Instagram, how Mark took Instagram very lovingly, by chatting with them, and then at the right time, he disowned the real owner of Instagram. You all liked that video a lot, and in just one month, But if you haven't seen that video yet, then I am giving the link of that video in the I button and description box. Do watch it. You will understand the dark secrets of business game, and you will also understand that in business, there is no real friend of anyone. Beluga, Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, these are the companies that Meta bought by giving an offer that their founders couldn't resist. And even if they resisted, their situation would have been like Snapchat and Twitter today. Mark clearly knew that Instagram could become a threat for Facebook in the future, so Mark bought Instagram, so that Facebook has time to implement new things. On the other hand, the founders who don't accept Mark's generous offer, have to face Mark's copy-paste technique. This is a very simple method that Mark consistently uses to get rid of his competitors, where he creates a very similar app like a competitor and puts it in his ecosystem. Look, Facebook has more crowd than ever. So whenever an app will be launched in it, it is obvious that people will prefer to live in one ecosystem. And in the same way, other social media companies end up, who refuse to connect with Mark. This happened exactly with Snapchat. When Mark offered $3 billion to even Spiegel to buy Snapchat, and when even didn't agree, then in 2012, as a Christmas gift, he was given Poke. Poke app was a copy of Snapchat in every sense. Mark tried his best to sideline Snapchat from the business, but that time, unfortunately, Poke app proved to be a failure. But today, we can finally see how Snapchat's story feature and its filters Mark uses on all three platforms, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp. Because of which, most people prefer to use these three apps. But if we look at Mark Zuckerberg's actions and patterns, he always offers to buy a company before targeting it. So did he offer Twitter too? Yes. When Twitter was gaining popularity in 2008, Mark wanted to buy Twitter then. Twitter's founder, Biz Stone, tells in his book that how Facebook had offered $500 million to buy Twitter, he further says that this number was very good and very big, but things didn't go according to plan, and Twitter finally refused this offer for three major reasons, which they later published on their post. I will definitely give you the link to that post in the description. You can go and read it if you want. Obviously, Mark wasn't happy with this. And then he used the same copy-paste technique. A lot of Twitter features like hashtags, verified accounts, vines, followers, Mark started copying everything. But Mark's last blow was still left, which has now come as Threads. Threads app was launched under the umbrella of Meta. It is Twitter's rival app, whose primary focus is to share short text snippets. Zuckerberg says in his Threads post that Threads app is an optional friendly app where you can carry out conversations publicly, and want to provide a new experience around text. Threads is a platform where you can share not only text, but also photos and videos. Right now, this app is available in 100 countries, and they plan to expand it in the future. But did Zuckerberg tell this to Twitter? But before that, I just want to ask you for a quick favor. If this video has been of value to you, and you have really enjoyed the video, do not forget to hit the like button. If you didn't like it, you can also hit the dislike button. In making videos in this kind of documentary style, doing research, preparing a script, shooting, editing, it really takes a lot of effort. So you can't even imagine how happy I would be to see your support. It feels so good. So by commenting on Mark Zuckerberg and his way of doing business, what are your viewpoints? And as soon as you hear Mark's name, what is the first thing that comes to your mind? Do tell us in the comments so that our entire community can interact with each other and we can learn a lot from each other. On this channel, in this kind of entertaining documentary style, there are going to be many more amazing videos related to business, finance, and life. And if you don't want to miss any such valuable video, then quickly hit the subscribe button and also hit the bell icon so that you get the instant notification whenever a new video will get uploaded on this channel. Check the settings as well. Make sure all your notifications are turned on. I hope you have an amazing time ahead. Now, let's get back to the topic. Twitter, where it was first launched as a website, then it was adapted into a phone, now threads are running on Instagram's pathway. Threads started with the app and it might happen that threads will have a website. In case it comes, it will be as late as Instagram where all the features might not even be available. Second, Accountsing, where Bluebird Twitter is independent and is not tied to any app. Whereas threads app is connected to Instagram. It is easy for people to log in, but one thing people have understood for a long time and that is that according to current updates, people will not be able to delete threads without deleting Instagram. Twitter, where it only gives 280 characters today, threads has started their character limit with 500 characters. Another thing that people have a mixed opinion on is that there is no option of private messaging in threads app. Also, hashtags don't work in threads. Overall, threads app is doing very well where after every other post on Twitter, ads are shown. There is nothing like that in threads. Mark Zuckerberg has publicly released a statement that until there are 1 billion registrations on threads, ads will not be run. Because of all these reasons, threads is the fastest app to download till date. After seeing this success, it is speculated that threads app will soon become the key to Meta's success. But along with Twitter, it will also make a major contribution. As soon as threads app was launched, Twitter threatened Meta on a public platform that it will take legal action against Meta against this. Alex Piro, who is Twitter's owner Elon Musk's personal lawyer, sent a letter to Meta's CEO Mark Zuckerberg accusing Meta of poaching Twitter employees and using Twitter's trade secrets and intellectual property to make this copycat application. How good is this and how bad is this, only time will tell. But on the internet, people are also very interested in these two billionaires' war. And here I am not just talking about legal war. Legal war is a small thing for both of them because both of them are rich and very powerful in a way. One has the power to manipulate social media and the other is followed by the whole world because of his public personality. The war I'm talking about here was decided between the two of them by cage fighting. When Elon Musk found out about the launch of threads on June 21, he challenged Mark on Twitter for a cage fight, which Mark accepted in his own way. And between all these legal cases and dramas, both billionaires are training themselves for this fight which is going to take place in Las Vegas. Seriously, man. Is this a joke? On one hand, they are talking about a billion-dollar legal case, and on the other hand, they are doing cage fighting. Maybe the issue we are taking so seriously is not that serious at all. And both these billionaires are doing all this to pass their time, to stay in the limelight. See how a few days ago, Elon Musk challenged Mark Zuckerberg to measure his dick size. After seeing all these things, my suggestion to you all would be that you don't take much interest in these two's beef, it would be better. Because they have done all they had to achieve in their life. And whatever they are doing now, they are doing it for fun so that their life remains happening. They don't have much to achieve now, but you have a lot to achieve. And invest this time in something productive because this is what social media does to manipulate you. So that you see people's so-called great lifestyle, talk to them, get inspired by them, and get entangled in this loop. The more time you spend on these apps, the more money they will earn. In May 2023, US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy released an advisory in which it was shown that the influence of social media on teenagers' minds is so high. This study shows how social media use is having a very bad impact on teenagers' lives. How people feel FOMO by looking at other people's fake lifestyle and how it is slowly making us addicts. We see rates of depression and anxiety and suicide and loneliness going up among young people. And I'm concerned that social media is an important driver of that youth mental health crisis. With every new content piece, you are being sold some product, opinion or propaganda and in return, your time and attention is being bought. I will not expect you to stop watching content in this era because that is not practically possible. But one thing you can keep in mind is that you become aware of what you are watching because what you consume shapes your future. Wait, before you leave, I just have something to share. What are some dark secrets about money that are always hidden from the poor and middle class? School, college or any institution never teaches us. But Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mukesh Ambani, Gautam Adani, Virat Kohli, what is the biggest reason behind everyone's success? You will understand if you watch the video on the right.