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Learning From MySpace's Mistakes

  • Guardian, Monday, March 9, 2015 11:23 AM
MySpace was originally a conceived as front for selling diet pills and remote-controlled helicopters, says Sean Percival, MySpace’s vice president of online marketing from 2009 to 2011. “All [the founders] wanted to do was build a social network so they could have distribution for their ads, selling these horrible products to people,” Percival said at a conference last week. Percival then went on to explain the other reasons why MySpace failed to become Facebook.
 

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