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- who may well just sell out to Facebook again after a couple of years[1] [1] No shade - if Facebook offered me $billions for my user generated content site, I

- who may well just sell out to Facebook again after a couple of years[1] [1] No shade - if Facebook offered me $billions for my user generated content site, I'd be at the bank quicker than you could imagine but I wouldn't expect anyone to trust me with user content again.

makerofspoons 4y ago
I don't think there's any love between Zuckerberg and Instagram's founders: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-04-07/zuckerberg-s-jealousy-held-back-instagram-and-drove-off-founders#xj4y7vzkg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-04-07/zuckerber...
- BbzzbB 4y ago
  What's interpersonal love got to do with it? Everyone would love 9-10 figure checks.
mdwalters 4y ago
Let's just hope this doesn't happen...
- deleted 4y ago
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misiti3780 4y ago
it wasnt billions, it was 1 billion
- zimpenfish 4y ago
  "$1,000,000,000 in 2012 is worth $1,292,703,642.08 today" Which is more than $1bn and therefore qualifies as "billions".
  - graphe 4y ago
    I can't believe your ego couldn't take that. $109 isn't hundreds of dollars.
  - prostanac 4y ago
    and $900,000,000 today will someday be worth over $1B, but we don't call them billions.
Terretta 4y ago
Brian Acton who sold Facebook his WhatsApp would like a word. Ask him why he walked away from his final billion (with a b) dollar payment. In a long piece by Forbes, Mr Acton refers to himself as “a sellout” despite taking what Forbes journalist Parmy Olson described as “perhaps the most expensive moral stand in history”. After he became fed up by Facebook’s desire to find a way to squeeze personal ads into WhatsApp, he walked away from the company a year before his final tranche of stock grants vested — a common payment method to reward workers with the ability to cash in shares if they stick around. But he knew what he was doing. The day he left he took a screenshot of the stock price on his way out the door. The decision to leave cost him about $1.17 billion. https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/im-a-sellout-the-man-who-walked-away-from-1-billion/news-story/fa85abf3f63ecae64a1d34c2ddf60d14 https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/im-a-sellou...
- oblio 4y ago
  It cost him $1bn once he was already worth about $3.5bn...
  - Terretta 4y ago
    I think a third of one's lifetime earnings would give most people pause.
    - oblio 4y ago
      If those lifetime earnings wouldn't already cover absolutely everything one needs except for money to conquer an entire country with...

makerofspoons 4y ago

I don't think there's any love between Zuckerberg and Instagram's founders: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-04-07/zuckerberg-s-jealousy-held-back-instagram-and-drove-off-founders#xj4y7vzkg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-04-07/zuckerber...

BbzzbB 4y ago
What's interpersonal love got to do with it? Everyone would love 9-10 figure checks.

mdwalters 4y ago

Let's just hope this doesn't happen...

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misiti3780 4y ago

it wasnt billions, it was 1 billion

zimpenfish 4y ago
"$1,000,000,000 in 2012 is worth $1,292,703,642.08 today" Which is more than $1bn and therefore qualifies as "billions".
- graphe 4y ago
  I can't believe your ego couldn't take that. $109 isn't hundreds of dollars.
- prostanac 4y ago
  and $900,000,000 today will someday be worth over $1B, but we don't call them billions.

Terretta 4y ago

Brian Acton who sold Facebook his WhatsApp would like a word. Ask him why he walked away from his final billion (with a b) dollar payment. In a long piece by Forbes, Mr Acton refers to himself as “a sellout” despite taking what Forbes journalist Parmy Olson described as “perhaps the most expensive moral stand in history”. After he became fed up by Facebook’s desire to find a way to squeeze personal ads into WhatsApp, he walked away from the company a year before his final tranche of stock grants vested — a common payment method to reward workers with the ability to cash in shares if they stick around. But he knew what he was doing. The day he left he took a screenshot of the stock price on his way out the door. The decision to leave cost him about $1.17 billion. https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/im-a-sellout-the-man-who-walked-away-from-1-billion/news-story/fa85abf3f63ecae64a1d34c2ddf60d14 https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/im-a-sellou...

oblio 4y ago
It cost him $1bn once he was already worth about $3.5bn...
- Terretta 4y ago
  I think a third of one's lifetime earnings would give most people pause.
  - oblio 4y ago
    If those lifetime earnings wouldn't already cover absolutely everything one needs except for money to conquer an entire country with...