Before AWS existed, one company ran the servers for Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook's entire app ecosystem.
They owned Node.js, invented containers 8 years before Docker, and Peter Thiel even backed them.
Then something happened...
Facebook once bought a VPN app for $120M and turned it into a surveillance tool that spied on 33M+ users' entire phones for years.
This app helped Zuck buy WhatsApp for a whopping $19B and break Snapchat's encryption.
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