Zuck Reportedly Greenlit Muse's Auto-Negotiating Bots Knowing It Would 'Poison' Marketplace
pdamodaran · x · 2026-09-21
An anecdote circulating about Meta: one of the Muse app's launch features is auto-negotiating prices on Facebook Marketplace. The PM owning Marketplace knows that millions of bots lowballing sellers could eventually kill the product — but when the Muse team escalated it to Zuckerberg, he reportedly said: 'OK, we'll poison Marketplace… but just a little.' The post also jokes about X's slow-loading spinners in the attached image.
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