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by throwaway4715 2222 days ago
That interview was bad. They're trying to make you feel bad for the Instagram founders because they were too stupid to realize that after you _sell_ your company you don't own it anymore. Also, per that interview, Instagram only became sustainable under Facebook.

Hard to feel bad about it.
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seppin 2222 days ago
> Instagram only became sustainable under Facebook.

That's an incredible leap to say IG couldn't develop their own ad network as a stand alone company. Hire a few people away from Google with options in a growing company the same way FB did.

If IG didn't sell they would have fully killed Facebook's relevancy by now.

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throwaway4715 2222 days ago
Yeah, but the IG founders didn't want to put ads on the product at all. It was not a sustainable business while in their control.
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seppin 2220 days ago
Do you have a source that they refused any ads at all? There's a difference between having a few tasteful ones and overloading it like it currently is.
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