That's a bit disingenuous though, it's like saying YouTube got 99% of their accounts post acquisition, knowing that the majority of these were merely Google acc

That's a bit disingenuous though, it's like saying YouTube got 99% of their accounts post acquisition, knowing that the majority of these were merely Google accounts who through the associative property of acquisitions were delegated these accounts by the purchaser. In my opinion Instagram sold a bit early[0], but coming from an app that existed merely as the first widely used iteration of phone-camera filters, I can't necessarily blame them. Who'd have thought that Instagram, and also Giphy to an extent had -any- form of business model or potential for profit? I sure didn't. [0] - sidenote: (in the financial and growth sense, not the chronological sense)