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I used to work at the biggest social network in the Netherlands. They tried to make a push for becoming a classifieds site and also payments before Facebook, but neither of these worked out.



Yeah, unfortunately ads is the most profitable business model on the internet for large sites with sticky user-bases.

If FB thought they'd have made more money going after Craiglist and PayPal, then that's what they would have done ten years ago.




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