ConnectU, Leave Mark Zuckerberg Alone!
You might recognize the people to the left. The ConnectU team. Their current claim is that Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea to make facebook. Their current course of action is to repetitively raise litigation against Zuckerberg and Facebook because they “got screwed”.
Boo Hoo.
The fact is that if we assume all their claims are true and Zuckerberg stole all of ConnectU’s technology (which isn’t very impressive) to make Facebook, I still believe that they do not deserve a penny. They had all the same technology as Mark and did nothing. The facts are that until they raised litigation against Facebook, no one in the world knew or cared about ConnectU. ConnectU was merely a page in the internet history books.
Mark took the technology and was able to proliferate it in a way that not many people can do. In a way that has changed the very face of the internet (no pun intended). Ideas don’t change the world, people change the world. That’s the truth and the people behind ConnectU are still a bunch of whiny kids trying to steal someone else’s glory.
When we started Phone Halo back in 2008, there were no other competitors. No other systems that claimed to be the “first wireless leash” No other systems that talked about using mobile applications to link the physical and mobile worlds in unique ways. But with any real business opportunity, competitors arise and companies must compete. Our execution in the business and how we continually try our very best to help our customers will drive us to be #1.
ConnectU team, didn’t you ever play sports? Go Big or Go Home. Time for you to go home.
-Chris
And for your viewing pleasure:
>It was mostly developed by Mark while he was working for them
How would you feel if one of your employees did the same thing?
1) So Mark mostly developed the technology yet he does not have the right to reap the benefits? If one of my employees can capitalize on some of the technology they created at Phone Halo, then I wish them all the best and I hope they let Phone Halo invest in their venture (I believe Google does this a lot).
2) ConnectU had the idea. Ideas are cheap (free last time I checked). Mark knows how to execute. The kind of team every VC wants is a team that can execute. It`s extremely difficult to bring an idea to market. Nearly impossible to have the idea achieve the world changing proportions that Facebook has become.
Finally, “Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting progress in the arts and the sciences and a flourishing socialist culture in our land.”