[pinkmuffinere]

I don't feel that the engineer answered poorly at all. They're answering a really broad strategic question, with no / very little hard data to go off of -- of course their answer is vague, there's very little certainty about anything in the question (not even price of acquisition!). I think they accurately call out the benefits and risks of the different paths. IMO this is as much as can be expected. Before "pulling trigger" on any of these decisions, there will have to be a lot more analysis, negotiation, etc, that they're just not going to get to in a dm. If the engineer was the kind of person to give a single definitive answer in this situation, I don't think they would be trusted with this kind of conversation.

[buildbot]

I completely agree, they answered as you or I would have, or even better; if we were in the same situation!

It’s more interesting that Zuckerberg would ask this, at least to me.

[pinkmuffinere]

Ah I see — ya I do see the strangeness of a CEO such a big question with so little context