Curiously, Facebook announced buying Instagram a few weeks after this email. And Instagram, under Facebook's leadership, apparently adopted Renren's "strong cu

Curiously, Facebook announced buying Instagram a few weeks after this email. And Instagram, under Facebook's leadership, apparently adopted Renren's "strong culture of cloning things" to the letter: first targeting Snapchat (2015-16), and now targeting Twitter... Or as someone replied below: > "I personally am pretty in favor of this approach in life generally... I would love to be far more aggressive and nimble in copying competitors at the interface / last mile level"