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Keep in mind the Ministry of State Security may have asked the Organization Department to suggest Tencent do this to acquire the social graph. The fact that the
by killjoywashere 9y ago
Keep in mind the Ministry of State Security may have asked the Organization Department to suggest Tencent do this to acquire the social graph. The fact that there is investor enthusiasm only makes it easier. This is potentially equivalent to Yuri Milner's investment actions to launder Putin's money through YCombinator and get intel along the way.
- paganel 9y agoFB’s advisor on the WhatsApp acquisition was a boutique investment firm headed at the time by former CIA director George Tenet. To this day I think that Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype (which was quite expensive at the time) was also made under the same auspices, i.e. to bring an entire social network under the control of a country’s intelligence services (in this case the US services). What I’m trying to say it’s that this is a well-known game that everyone is playing.