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Instagram’s Co-Founders Said to Step Down from Company

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Re: Instagram’s Co-Founders Said to Step Down from Company

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Post by rakibtg »

I know i'm wrong, and doing a misjudgement here but the fact is "Companies like facebook don't need founders, they will eventually make the product that people might use in everyday life, they will do it anyhow; by either copying that product or to buy it. Remember that the 'poke your friend' feature is only unique from facebook everything else is someone else's things"

this evil face of facebook will hurt more and more companies day after day and in a result a chain reaction that will affect the life of general people.

Re: Instagram’s Co-Founders Said to Step Down from Company

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Post by monort »

laurieg wrote: post #125
throwaway724 wrote: post #56

Posting anon. In 2009, the startup where I was working was hitting the skids, and our investors (correctly) were not willing to back us. We all kept grinding for a month or two in honorable futility, but after a while, my bank account depleted and I had to go. To make various ends meet and to keep my mental health during the wind down however, I took up some contract work that I found through various friends in the S…

A lot of commenters seem to be bemoaning this poster as missing out on endless riches. Why? we already know that being super rich doesn't really make you all that much happier compared to being rich (and if you are a programmer in work in then you are pretty rich). I feel that they missed out more on the rocketship journey of being on a startup. And even then that's not everyone's cup of tea.

Anecdotally, when you don't need to work it makes you happier (though you can still work, but only when you want to). High wage vs passive income is a big difference and the research you are thinking about only captured the former.

Re: Instagram’s Co-Founders Said to Step Down from Company

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Post by tmvnty »

throwaway724 wrote: post #56

Posting anon. In 2009, the startup where I was working was hitting the skids, and our investors (correctly) were not willing to back us. We all kept grinding for a month or two in honorable futility, but after a while, my bank account depleted and I had to go. To make various ends meet and to keep my mental health during the wind down however, I took up some contract work that I found through various friends in the S…

The fandom of getting rich and famous in the Silicon Valley is equivalent to high school girls wanting the bad boys as boyfriends.

Re: Instagram’s Co-Founders Said to Step Down from Company

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Post by newscracker »

themagician wrote: post #101
newscracker wrote: post #75

Well, there's more than a 50% probability that they're leaving because of conflicts with Facebook, the privacy issues and the push to add more and more ads everywhere. If this were the case, I hope they'd speak up sooner than later. We need voices from within FB and its acquisitions to tell everyone how messed up things are behind the scenes. But you have to give credit to how the company started and how it's been ru…

lolwut? Instagram today is completely different from the way it started. The app is different, the community is completely different. Literally nothing is the same. It doesn’t even resemble what it once was. It has completely devolved. It may very well be the most toxic property out there. It’s hard to imagine something more phony, optimized soley as a way to waste your time tapping away giving “likes”. Watching somo…

(As the commenter to whom you replied) I agree with your points and observations, but which social network doesn't devolve to the basest desires of humans — the desire to be liked and appreciated, wanting to show off a perfect side, etc. — after reaching a certain volume of users (and more so after being taken over by a large company that thrives on such content)?

Instagram has been susceptible to the same effects, but as others have mentioned, with a small and curated list of people to follow, it's probably a nicer place to be (compared to other platforms like Facebook, Twitter, etc.) when it comes to online social interactions.

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Post by apetresc »

confiscate wrote: post #105
tsunamifury wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why did everyone run into Larry so much back then and what happened to the startup party scene... which was so odd at the time. Edit: Found my answers on quora, I’ll let you look yourselves as I don’t want to link to what may be gossip but I had a laugh and a wave of nostalgia for those heady nonsense days

who is Larry and why does this person matter? I searched on Google but could not find anything relevant. I actually met Larry at a bitcoin event a while back. Seems like a normal guy. Is there some back story I am not aware of?

You simultaneously don't know who Larry is, but also know you met him?

Re: Instagram’s Co-Founders Said to Step Down from Company

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Post by iamthirsty »

dnautics wrote: post #114
themagician wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

lolwut? Instagram today is completely different from the way it started. The app is different, the community is completely different. Literally nothing is the same. It doesn’t even resemble what it once was. It has completely devolved. It may very well be the most toxic property out there. It’s hard to imagine something more phony, optimized soley as a way to waste your time tapping away giving “likes”. Watching somo…

Ig's content, imo is still way better than Snapchat or whisper or even Facebook. The annoying thing is that ads are extremely obtrusive (this is a new thing). At least on FB the don't occlude your ability to enjoy other content.

Well you must not spend must time on Snapchat, my friend. Literally 50% of the app (the pane to the left) is only your friends. If the content is bad for you, then that is a you problem, not a platform problem. You can't even scroll your IG feed for more than a few minutes (at most) without an ad or "Sponsored Content".

Personally, I actually even find some of Snapchat's "For You" section useful as well — I usually only see stories from NYT, WaPo, or other news/informative content providers. The ads are surprisingly avoidable, and much less prevalent than Instagram.

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Post by skrebbel »

uuilly wrote: post #121
throwaway724 wrote: post #56

Posting anon. In 2009, the startup where I was working was hitting the skids, and our investors (correctly) were not willing to back us. We all kept grinding for a month or two in honorable futility, but after a while, my bank account depleted and I had to go. To make various ends meet and to keep my mental health during the wind down however, I took up some contract work that I found through various friends in the S…

You know how in war movies when the guy leaves the trench only to come back and find that all his friends have been killed? In the valley you leave the trench and come back to find that all your friends are rich. No words can alleviate that regret. But if you’re having near misses like this you’re actually really close to something good.

> No words can alleviate that regret.

I can relate. I cry myself to sleep every night thinking about those bitcoins I didn't mine, back when you could get hundreds on a single GPU overnight.

Re: Instagram’s Co-Founders Said to Step Down from Company

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Post by umichguy »

ryandrake wrote: post #52
hatergonnahate wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When you have 1.5 - 2M mortgage which is super common among my friends in CA, a few months without paychecks is totally unacceptable.

Yea, people who don’t live here have no idea how expensive it is. Based on how much I make, my rural east coast parents, bless them, probably wonder why I live in a home 1/2 the size of theirs with a 50 mile commute, and not a castle with a 7 car garage. Bay Area prices and taxes...that’s why!

Though to be honest, even if I could afford something massive, I'd rather not - just don't see the appeal in it anymore. Maybe when I was a kid growing up in HS and in college, I used to think that way. But having traveled and lived in a bunch of different countries around the world, I just lost that "aspiration," if you could call it that.

I will be more than happy with a nice and simple 1 or 2 bed apartment. Plus, big houses = lot's of caring/ maintenance = boring!

Re: Instagram’s Co-Founders Said to Step Down from Company

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Post by jorvi »

skrebbel wrote: post #137
uuilly wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You know how in war movies when the guy leaves the trench only to come back and find that all his friends have been killed? In the valley you leave the trench and come back to find that all your friends are rich. No words can alleviate that regret. But if you’re having near misses like this you’re actually really close to something good.

> No words can alleviate that regret. I can relate. I cry myself to sleep every night thinking about those bitcoins I didn't mine, back when you could get hundreds on a single GPU overnight.

Well, at least you aren’t the guy that bought two pizzas for 10 000 bitcoins. If he’d have held onto them until the $20 000 peak (a tall order in itself) he’d have netted a cool $200 million.

Re: Instagram’s Co-Founders Said to Step Down from Company

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Post by adam-a »

goseeastarwar wrote: post #3

I'd venture that they're extremely wealthy, still friends, and decided it's time to go have fun rather than prescribe this to Facebook's ethical challenges like the article would have you believe.

I think you mean ascribe - "to attribute" rather than prescribe - "to give or direct".

I agree with your point though.

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