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This exactly. Kara Swisher's interview with Sarah Frier on how Instagram went really paints the picture. https://overcast.fm/+QLdurp-A8 https://overcast.fm/+QLd
by eloc49 6y ago
This exactly. Kara Swisher's interview with Sarah Frier on how Instagram went really paints the picture. https://overcast.fm/+QLdurp-A8 https://overcast.fm/+QLdurp-A8
- throwaway4715 6y agoThat 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.
- seppin 6y 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.
- throwaway4715 6y agoYeah, 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.
- seppin 6y agoDo 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.