Hi5

They need to bring it back, man.

But the thing is, even with things like MySpace and Hi5, it wasn't as driven by the algorithm.

So it was literally your friends and that's it.

You know, you with MySpace, you had Tom.

So at that time, you know, it was the TV.

The first social media platform I joined was called Hi5.

2003, Ben TV came.

Perfect.

America takes longer.

So at that time, you know, it was the TV.

The first social media platform I joined was called Hi5.

Have you ever heard of Hi5? No, sir.

This is so annoying.

Like, when I tell you, I'm on social media from the days of Hi5 and MySpace, that kind of thing, right? When it was actually fun to connect with people.

The other day I was talking to my friends and we're talking about the days of MSN Messenger and running home to go and log into MSN Messenger to talk to your friends.

Like, that is the era I am coming from.

Uh, and then sometimes when I, I went out and met people, when I interviewed people, I would take pictures and share on...

Back then we didn't have Facebook, we had Hi5.

It was Hi5.

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Hi5.

So I would post it on Hi5, and the attraction was good, and people were gravitating towards that.

They were following me.

I was like, "Ah, people are interested in th- this thing."

People are using it, they are happy, fine.

Until someone comes with a way greater product than yours and totally wash you guys out, just like what happened with Facebook and MySpace and Yahoo! and MSN and all, and Hi5 and Orkut and all that.

So instead of...

My last word for you, instead of seeing competition and competitors as a threat and starting being jealous at them, of course, it's gonna be a threat, don't get me wrong, and starting being jealous at them and all that, see it as a reason to motivate yourself and work harder and run faster and win more and outrank them.

Uh-huh

... is a website that when I was, like, 16, 17, started to put these thing, there is something called Hi5.

I don't know if you remember it.

It's like, um, Facebook, but before Facebook.

Yeah, yeah.

But MySpace was for, like, the very American.

Hi5, I thought, I don't know, I thought it's global as well.

Okay.

Like we have these growth guys that are really good at virality, tagged, and they happen to be got LinkedIn viral.

They got Hi5 viral.

They got Flixr viral.

They got like 10 out of the 20 properties on the web viral.