This article is quite sensationalist and doesn't seem to consider the fact that every company today is in a different stage of its life cycle. FB was founded i

This article is quite sensationalist and doesn't seem to consider the fact that every company today is in a different stage of its life cycle. FB was founded in 2004, while Google was founded in 1998, so it's appropriate to compare today's Facebook with 2007's Google, pre-android and all. Box was founded in 2005, salesforce: 1999, linkedin: 2001, jawbone: 1999, workday: 2005, amazon: 1994. Note that the two oldest companies in this list are Amazon and Google, so it's no wonder that they are the ones who have expanded the most beyond their initial markets. It's always taken a while to build a great company that competes in 2+ markets, and that hasn't changed.