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Upvoting this not because I agree, but because someone downvoted the parent.

This is an opinion based thread - why are people downvoting people when they disagree with an opinion? Especially in a thread like this one?




Not that I dis-agree, but do you consider facebook a startup? They seem like they've entered out of that phase to me.


I certainly don't - and even though Facebook fell out of the realm of startup, it just bothered me that that poster was downvoted for their opinion whether slightly offtopic or not.


By a loose definition of a startup, I'd say Facebook still is one. They haven't had an exit and took money from DST as recent as last year.




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