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Instagram Is Estimated to Be Worth More Than $100B

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Re: Instagram Is Estimated to Be Worth More Than $100B

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Post by murukesh_s »

EpicEng wrote: post #87
394549 wrote: post #81

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> Say what you want about Zuckerberg but the guy was well ahead of his time and could see how things would evolve and what tick with people brains. Did he really predict that, or did he just see an upcoming potential competitive threat and buy it? I feel bad for the founders of Instagram. They could have been the next Zuckerberg(s) (as Instagram seems to be taking over as Facebook seems to be starting to fade), but i…

You "feel sorry" for two people in their mid-twenties who made anywhere from $100M to $400M selling their 15 month old company (while making the other 11 employees rich along the way.) Ok. Beyond that, why do you assume the valuation would be exactly the same had they not sold to FB?

yea, nothing to feel sorry about. What could anyone do with a few millions (or billions more) if they are already rich by half a million.. unless you are trying to climb the Forbes leaderboard.

Re: Instagram Is Estimated to Be Worth More Than $100B

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Post by tomnipotent »

murukesh_s wrote: post #107
code_duck wrote: post #83

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Instagram is basically Twitter where you have to post a photo. I agree that Instagram could not have grown to this size without being part of Facebook.

I think it could have been the other way around. Media and folks could have compared the growth of Instagram, which would have been a competing product with Facebook, and it could have given good mileage to Instagram, especially after the privacy fiasco and hate towards Facebook, Instagram could have been positioned as a Facebook replacement and there by shooting up it's value further.

> Facebook replacement

Instagram has always been supplementary to Facebook, it was never a candidate to replace it.

Re: Instagram Is Estimated to Be Worth More Than $100B

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Post by johnchristopher »

tspike wrote: post #98
matte_black wrote: post #61

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If pictures are depressing you you might be following the wrong people.

To me, what's depressing is the amount of energy people spend proving their experiences were so amazing versus actually experiencing them.

It has always been like that. The amount of energy, of pretending, we put into recreating past experiences through retelling, photo, movie, conversation... it almost always trumps the experience itself.

Facts don't matter. Only opinions, how we choose to see them and agree on its meaning as a group matters.

Re: Instagram Is Estimated to Be Worth More Than $100B

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Post by airstrike »

electricslpnsld wrote: post #29
ggregoire wrote: post #13

I have some adult friends spending 1 or 2 hours a day on Instagram. I can’t even imagine how much time millenials spend on it.

> I have some adult friends spending 1 or 2 hours a day on Instagram. I can’t even imagine how much time millenials spend on it. Millenials are now all adults. :) A good chunk of the millennial generation is now in the child-having and house-buying (well, maybe not the later, too many avocados) stage of life!

> house-buying (well, maybe not the later, too many avocados)

Fantastic...

Re: Instagram Is Estimated to Be Worth More Than $100B

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Post by toasterlovin »

lawlessone wrote: post #78
ggregoire wrote: post #33

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The other day in a plane, all the people next to me and in front of me were on FB/Insta before the flight. After landing, everybody turned off the flight mode and got back on FB/Insta!? The flight was 1-hour long.

I would criticise.. but i probably spend as much time arguing on twitter with complete strangers.

But if you do it right, arguing with strangers on the internet helps you think better.

Re: Instagram Is Estimated to Be Worth More Than $100B

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Post by airstrike »

AznHisoka wrote: post #37
mpg33 wrote: post #4

Hell of an acquisition by Zuckerberg

And shame on the government for not doing any due diligence in trying to prevent this acquisition/monopoly.

Shame on the government for allowing an enterprise to become so successful. We should all protest for a worse economy! Fewer goods and services! Unemployment! That's what we want!

Re: Instagram Is Estimated to Be Worth More Than $100B

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Post by cozzyd »

I recently started using Instagram (at first, to boost the number of followers for someone's organization's account). But it's actually kind of fun, every once in a while I see something interesting and instagram is a place I can post that without really bothering other people (since that's the point!)
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