4 ms·
People said the same thing when he paid $1B for Instagram, for it to look like a crazy bargain a couple of months later.
by jonnat 7mo ago
People said the same thing when he paid $1B for Instagram, for it to look like a crazy bargain a couple of months later.
- TheOtherHobbes 7mo agoPeople also said the same thing when he poured $70Bn into the Metaverse, and they were right.
- macNchz 7mo agoIf Moltbook becomes as big as Instagram I’m giving up on tech and moving to the mountains to raise goats.
- dudeinjapan 7mo agoThey will have to acquire Lobstagram next
- sathish316 7mo agoROFL
- ReptileMan 7mo agoBlackadder: Sir, I have been unable to replace the dictionary. I am therefore leaving immediately for Nepal, where I intend to live as a goat.
- yunnpp 7mo agoI am a goat.
- sathish316 7mo agoIt’ll be disappointing if Moltbook is somehow connected to the Metaverse or represents the best of what Metaverse at Facebook could ever be.
- wavemode 7mo agoWho exactly said that about the Instagram acquisition?
- lobf 7mo agoYeah I remember the discourse around that acquisition as being a really smart play to shore up the new frontier in social media as Facebook grew stale and uncool.
- romanhn 7mo agoTons of critical comments on HN at the time, for one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3817840 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3817840. And most of the positive ones viewed it as a defensive measure rather than another Google + YouTube story.