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Zuckerberg Negotiated Facebook's $1B Instagram Acquisition Over a Single Weekend
“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…”
Sequoia invested in Instagram 48 hours before the Facebook acquisition
“It's also funny that Sequoia claims Instagram was one of their investments where it sold 48 hours after they invested.”
Rosenthal: India has the largest population of Instagram users
“India is the largest populations of users on Instagram.”
Gilbert: Virat Kohli has 270M Instagram followers, tying Taylor Swift
“Virat Kohli, the top cricketer in the world, has two hundred and seventy million, and he's approximately tied with Taylor Swift.”
Rosenthal: Instagram pioneered the top-row algorithmic Stories UI, not Snapchat
“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…”