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Without Facebook Instagram wouldn't exist since Instagram used Facebook's social graph aka "Log in with Facebook" in order to kickstart and grow its userbase.
by mrkramer 5y ago
Without Facebook Instagram wouldn't exist since Instagram used Facebook's social graph aka "Log in with Facebook" in order to kickstart and grow its userbase.
- sprafa 5y agoAre you sure about this? I know Whatsapp was on an exponential growth curve before it was acquired, what was IG’s future looking like?
- mrkramer 5y agoInstagram was growing like crazy[0]; it launched in October 2010 and by April/May 2012 it had 50 million users. So they gained 50 million users in one and a half year. There were other photo sharing apps as well at the time on the Iphone so the growth is even more impressing. Future for them was bright but they needed more engineers and more professional management to cope with the rapid growth since they had only 13 employees at the time of proposed acquisition which eventually happened. Zuckerberg said Instagram was about to hit the wall if it wasn't Facebook because their backend wasn't good enough for millions of users but if they got more engineers and a good CTO and a good COO they could've survived and grow on their own. [0] https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Instagram-1-billion-users.png?w=1390&crop=1 https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Instagram-...