Strategy question
What is the next billion dollar opportunity that Meta has not pursued yet?
- Meta
- Strategy
- Hard
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What this question tests
Strategic thinking about market sizing and competitive advantage, requiring a specific, monetizable idea rather than a vague trend.
How to approach it
- Pick one concrete opportunity, like a dedicated creator-monetization marketplace across Instagram and Facebook, or AI ad tools for Meta's tens of millions of SMB advertisers.
- Size the opportunity roughly, e.g. current SMB advertiser count times average spend lift from better tools.
- Explain Meta's specific advantage: distribution across billions of users, existing ad infrastructure, first-party data.
- Note why Meta hasn't pursued it yet, organizational focus elsewhere or a past deprioritization, showing grounded reasoning.
- State the biggest risk, like regulatory scrutiny or cannibalizing existing ad revenue, and how you'd mitigate it.
What a strong answer includes
- Chooses something plausible and specific to Meta's actual assets, not a generic AI or metaverse hand-wave.
- Backs the size claim with a rough calculation, advertiser count times spend increase.
- Names Meta's structural advantage explicitly: distribution, data, ad rails.
Common mistakes
- Naming something Meta is already visibly pursuing, like Reels monetization, signaling not knowing the company.
- Giving no sizing logic, just asserting 'billion dollar' with no calculation.
Likely follow-up questions
- How would you validate this opportunity before committing resources?
- What would be your first 90-day milestone to prove the bet is working?
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Chapters of the AI PM course that teach what this question tests.
- Chapter 4: Discovery and strategy for AI products
- Chapter 9: Prove it paid off: outcomes, economics, and pricing
- Chapter 14: Get the job: the AI PM interview loop