Early Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya on the metric Facebook used to beat MySpace

Early Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya on the metric Facebook used to beat MySpace We knew we were gonna beat MySpace when we had like 45 million users. They had like 115 million. We just knew. We used to just like, that was not what we celebrated We celebrated at 45 million it was kinda like a high five. We were like alright let's get back to work. And the reason was because we started to do enough things right where we could just see now we understood what we were doing. After all the testing, all the iterating, all of this stuff, you know what the single biggest thing we realized? Get any individual to 7 friends in 10 days That was it. You want a keystone? That was our keystone. There was not much more complexity than that. There's an entire team now, hundreds of people that have helped ramp this product to a billion users based on that one simple rule