The real outcome of his assertions is likely to be a further weakening of the lawsuit filed by Tyler, left Cameron Winklevoss, two of the co-founders of ConnectU, who said Facebook was their idea and that Zuckerberg stole it from them , and are pursuing their claims in court. Still, Greenspan has been critical of Zuckerberg. See his open letter to Zuckerberg, for example. We may collect cookies and other personal information from your interaction with our website. For more information on the categories of personal information we collect and the purposes we use them for, please view our Notice at Collection.
Become a Member Sign In. Greenspan has long been at odds with Zuckerberg. When Zuckerberg tried to trademark the word "Facebook" in , Greenspan opposed him. The pair reached a settlement. Greenspan later sued "The Social Network " movie producers, claiming he should have been included in the story of Facebook's history.
For years, Greenspan has been trying to show how Mark Zuckerberg wronged him. It happened a lot and that makes me concerned for anyone who would trust their retirement savings to him. It's pretty plain. And I've spent the past decade trying to convince people of that so I can get my own career started, and it's been pretty difficult. In the first IM conversation from , Zuckerberg allegedly approached Greenspan about Facebook pre-launch.
He told Greenspan that he had created a product that was more or less a "souped up version" of a HouseSYSTEM feature, and that the two companies might be competitive. Zuckerberg offered to make Greenspan a Facebook partner so they wouldn't go head to head, but Greenspan turned him down:.
ThinkComp : in what context zberg02 : like would you be interested in possibly partnering up to make a site if it would not be incorporated into housesystem ThinkComp : for the sec?
ThinkComp : it's much easier to just incorporate things where they fit from my perspective zberg02 : well i agree zberg02 : but we disagree on whether or not it would fit into housesystem zberg02 : well really i just want to make sure that we're not doing the same thing zberg02 : because then neither of us would succeed i think.
In that initial conversation, the pair seemed friendly. That June, once thefacebook was on its way to taking off, Zuckerberg and Greenspan still seemed cordial. Zuckerberg allegedly told Greenspan he was one of "six people in the world who has decent ideas" and even insinuated a job offer at his social network.
Facebook has outright dismissed a report from a former Harvard classmate of CEO Mark Zuckerberg claiming that more than half of the social network's users are fake. The report was published last week by Aaron Greenspan , who studied alongside the billionaire tech executive and claims to have come up with the idea for Facebook first.
In the page study, Greenspan said fake accounts made up more than half of Facebook's 2. The company has lost control of its own product. Read more: Mark Zuckerberg: A look at the life, career, and controversies surrounding one of the richest people in the world.
Facebook strongly denied the findings. She did not give any further explanation. Greenspan has been a vocal critic of Facebook in the past. In August, for example, he said the platform had caused "countless deaths" because of its addictive qualities.
In his report, Greenspan acknowledged a certain degree of bias.
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