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The more interesting question I have is how he knew the speed that IG user base was growing. The threat that Google may acquire IG when IG was barely a year old
by jarjoura 2y ago
The more interesting question I have is how he knew the speed that IG user base was growing. The threat that Google may acquire IG when IG was barely a year old seemed quite paranoid, especially when Google had almost certainly ceded its Google+ effort by then.
If anything, the rumors in startup land at the time had Twitter as the likely buyer and IG was quickly integrating with them. It was a product that, to this day, never felt at home with the FB News Feed. Threads is the proof that it really should have been a Twitter product.
Zuck does make fair points, and his direct reports calling out "team issues" seems like excuses. If anything, the "efficient" mono corporate culture of Facebook makes launching a whole new product that isn't just a feature of a bigger product almost impossible. I was on a couple zero-to-one efforts that never made it past the prototype stage because it couldn't really find a home in the bigger orgs. Camera was no different.
- einszwei 2y ago> The more interesting question I have is how he knew the speed that IG user base was growing. See the acquisition of Onavo by Meta/FB [1]. Onavo was a Spyware which allegedly provided the data to FB on which Apps they were loosing ground to. This very likely played a part in Meta/FB deciding to acquire Instagram and Whatsapp. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onavo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onavo
- crop_rotation 2y agoNice theory but Onavo was acquired post Instagram.
- einszwei 2y agoWhy do you think FB only had Onavo's data after acquisition? See this article from when instagram acquired [1]. > Instagram has grown on the iOS platform and recently opened its community to Android users. The service now has 30 million users — up from 5 million in June — and the app is the sixth-most downloaded iOS application, according to Onavo's numbers Quote from the article [1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/with-instagram-deal-facebook-shows-its-taking-rapid-shift-to-mobile-platforms-seriously/2012/04/10/gIQAJL2z8S_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/with-inst...
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