Instagram

“Facebook buying Instagram and WhatsApp is a lot like Standard Oil's Cleveland Massacre and you know, the subsequent roll-up of all these other refiners elsewhere.”

“It's also funny that Sequoia claims Instagram was one of their investments where it sold 48 hours after they invested.”

“I mean, they returned the fund on the investment, but, like, with the sale to Facebook.”

“Instagram would have been a great acquisition anyway, but it was AI-powered recommendations in the feed that made that into a 102 105 hundred billion dollar asset for Facebook.”

“Stories as initially launched by Snap in the Snapchat app was a separate tab with a list of your friends who had published stories. It was literally like a table, like a list. ... So when Instagram copied quote unquote stories and launched stories, they launch…”

“Which ultimately would be a problem because that's what created room for Instagram, for Snapchat, et cetera.”

“The Instagram team noticed over time that even before Snap started eating their lunch that Engagement would decrease the longer you stayed an Instagram user, because you, over time, being done with these permanent posts, and you sort of saved it for the big an…”

“Not to mention, on top of it all, we're not gonna go into it here because we had a whole episode on Facebook and Instagram, but this was done over two days, over the course of a weekend. Mark didn't do a whole lot of socializing this before pulling the trigger…”

“India is the largest populations of users on Instagram.”

“Virat Kohli, the top cricketer in the world, has two hundred and seventy million, and he's approximately tied with Taylor Swift.”

“It's a Google-y thing that this genius technology is the product itself, and if you try to Craft some cool idea that you have that is not just directly translating tech breakthrough. It's not gonna be the type of product that succeeds at Google. They don't kno…”

“That was complete garbage. That was people searching Instagram who accidentally hit a llama model that made some things happen, and they were like, oh, go away. I actually am just looking for a user.”

“They bought this thing for, we'll talk about the purchase price, but it's worth, what, five hundred billion dollars today? I mean, this is as good as Instagram or YouTube in terms of greatest acquisitions of all time.”