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> They need to convince people to buy into, but the technology itself doesn't need to be real.

Maybe. But on the other hand, Tesla was starting out with a _lot_ more user goodwill than FaceBook.

Tesla isn't perfect, they have (IMHO) a good basic product, but with some build quality issues, labour issues, over-promising self-driving issues etc, and yet ... these issues have not shifted the narrative from basically favourable. Part of me still wants one, even though I know it's not going to drive itself. Maybe narratives are sticky?

So, FaceBook is going into this with a massively negative narrative. Shifting it will be hard. We're all really cynical about FaceBook already.




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