4) A clean interface which appealed to something other than the rebellious, "express myself" teen (i.e. not MySpace).
5) Timing. He hit the right audience at the right time.
6) Luck.
I don't doubt that there is a lot of skill at Facebook these days to keep it riding high on the social wave, but if you want to talk about what made Facebook successful, it's mostly the above.
1) Prior campus projects made him locally famous.
2) An upper-crust seed population.
3) Exclusivity during expansion.
4) A clean interface which appealed to something other than the rebellious, "express myself" teen (i.e. not MySpace).
5) Timing. He hit the right audience at the right time.
6) Luck.
I don't doubt that there is a lot of skill at Facebook these days to keep it riding high on the social wave, but if you want to talk about what made Facebook successful, it's mostly the above.