by: Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY (Excerpt)

SAN FRANCISCO — For a tech executive that has Facebook aiming directly at his business, Kayvon Beykpour exudes a preternatural calm under pressure.

The co-founder of Periscope, Beykpour helped popularize the idea of broadcasting from your smart phone when he and childhood pal Joe Bernstein introduced their live mobile-video app in 2015, quickly amassing 10 million users and announcing in March some 200 million total broadcasts. […]

“Make no mistake, Facebook is gunning to take out Periscope and also Snapchat,” says Brian Solis, an analyst with the Profit Co.’s Altimeter Group research firm. “He (Beykpour) needs to take it very seriously.”

“Make no mistake, Facebook is gunning to take out Periscope and also Snapchat,” says Brian Solis, an analyst with the Profit Co.’s Altimeter Group research firm. “He (Beykpour) needs to take it very seriously.” […]

At the end of the day, “Facebook is for social networks, conversations with your friends,” says Altimeter’s Solis. “Periscope is about the live web, it’s about what’s happening in the moment, where Facebook is about what are my friends doing.” […]