I was doing a talk at a startup event in Kuala Lumpur.
This weird engineering type approached me after.
“Hi Sir, Alex. I want to copy Facebook”
“Ok. Like, what niche are you targeting?”
We were walking down a corridor, leaving the room. I was a little distracted.
“I want to copy Facebook”
“But, there is already a Facebook, so I don’t get what your business model is?”
I actually attempted to ask serious questions, taking this seriously, I just forget what exactly.
“I want to be like Mark Zuckerberg. I want to copy Facebook”
“Huh? I don’t see how that will work. What insight do you have I don’t get?”
“I want to copy Facebook”
“Best of luck with it!”
It was truly fecking bizarre. You can’t even make that shizzle up. I remember it clearly because it was just so weird and delusional.