[ Prompt link (https://tsnkinks.dreamwidth.org/1679.html?thread=5007#cmt5007) ] summary: What it says in the title. So many ideas, sites, companies don't take off, or seem to, for a couple of months or even a year or two, and then fizzle out and die or crash and burn. It could have so easily been Facebook. And Mark, who surrounded himself with people like Sean and Thiel, reflecting his own dreams back at him as long as things went well but ultimately opportunists caring about their own bottom line, and employees, awe-struck at the height of his success but in no position to make him listen to bad news he doesn't want to hear and with no reason to stand by him when the money dries up, finds himself completely unprepared when things go belly-up, and abandoned by all the good-weather friends he thought got him.
Up to anon where it goes from there and how Dustin and Chris feature into it. fill: untitled (https://tsnkinks.dreamwidth.org/1679.html?thread=6031#cmt6031) tags: canon divergence au, facebook au
Part 1, Eduardo/Mark, [WIP]
summary: What it says in the title. So many ideas, sites, companies don't take off, or seem to, for a couple of months or even a year or two, and then fizzle out and die or crash and burn. It could have so easily been Facebook. And Mark, who surrounded himself with people like Sean and Thiel, reflecting his own dreams back at him as long as things went well but ultimately opportunists caring about their own bottom line, and employees, awe-struck at the height of his success but in no position to make him listen to bad news he doesn't want to hear and with no reason to stand by him when the money dries up, finds himself completely unprepared when things go belly-up, and abandoned by all the good-weather friends he thought got him.
Up to anon where it goes from there and how Dustin and Chris feature into it.
fill: untitled (https://tsnkinks.dreamwidth.org/1679.html?thread=6031#cmt6031)
tags: canon divergence au, facebook au