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November 3, 2003
"It's The Other People, Stupid"
Posted by Seb Paquet
Christopher Lydon interviews Meetup founder Scott Heiferman (a 5.7 Mb mp3). The part I found the most interesting is around 19 minutes into the interview, when Heiferman explains how abstracting away from any particular issue or topic actually turned out to be beneficial in terms of the impact of his service:
I can tell you what Chris, if I cared too much about politics, we wouldn't have made such an impact on politics. We sort of stay agnostic of what this platform will be used for because if we were that smart, if we were smart enough to know exactly what the right applications of this Meetup are, or were, how it's gonna evolve, then we would have screwed the whole thing up, because it's up to the creativity of the masses to figure it out.
Score one more for stupid social software - software that doesn't presume to know what people will do with it.
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