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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 allenleee »

According to WSJ's report:

Facebook’s Chris Cox has been put in charge of all the company’s apps now.

When Ms. Sandberg went unmentioned in a major reshuffling of Mr. Zuckerberg’s top product executives in May, the moves caused former employees and executives to speculate that she had been displaced as the second-most-powerful figure by Chris Cox, a close friend of Mr. Zuckerberg, who had been elevated to a new role in charge of all the company’s apps, including Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram.

link: https://www.wsj.com/articles/sheryl-sandberg-leans-into-a-ga...

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

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Post by Puer »

untog wrote: post #11
kookiekrak wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Instagram hasn't copied from Snapchat in a very long time. Have you used Snapchat recently? The UX is completely different and awful now. Instagram is innovating with new features like Video Calling and Live Video that Snapchat lacks.

Instagram Stories felt like a very obvious copy of Snapchat, and it wasn't that long ago.

They may have initially copied Snapchat, but they've built on the feature and made it much more engaging to use than the original.

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

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Post by danso »

opportune wrote: post #12
danso wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would you guess that when a FB spokesperson doesn’t have a prepared comment about this massive change in leadership?

How many pre-announcements must a person make before they are sufficiently prepared for an actual announcement? This is already a pre-announcement of the announcement of the resignation, because this info is leaked from within Instagram

According to the article, this info was leaked to the reporters from several people who knew about it, and the co-founders have already notified Instagram's leadership team. It's not just anyone, but two co-founders of one of the world's most prominent tech companies. If they are indeed leaving "just for fun", presumably they care enough about their company and their colleagues to have given an explanation for their unexpected, simultaneous departure. I would also assume they aren't naive enough to think this wouldn't be leaked before an official press release.

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Post by lbotos »

bepotts wrote: post #20

I wonder what's Facebook's move after Instagram becomes stale and no longer "cool". It seems to me that the popularity of social networks are cyclical, and there's very little that a company can do to satiate a user's appetite for something new. That's before we discuss future regulatory troubles Facebook might face. What future revenue streams does Facebook have? Are they even capable of creating something new that…

I mean, can they not BUY the next one? It's what they did with Instagram after all.

>What future revenue streams does Facebook have?

The amount of Data facebook has on the behavioral nature of current parents and current and future American children of said parents is _insane_. Facebook may not be a social media company for ever, but big blue will be an advertising powerhouse for a while with the amount of data they have.

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Post by imron »

bepotts wrote: post #20

I wonder what's Facebook's move after Instagram becomes stale and no longer "cool". It seems to me that the popularity of social networks are cyclical, and there's very little that a company can do to satiate a user's appetite for something new. That's before we discuss future regulatory troubles Facebook might face. What future revenue streams does Facebook have? Are they even capable of creating something new that…

> I wonder what's Facebook's move after Instagram becomes stale and no longer "cool"

They acquire the next cool thing

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Post by brandon272 »

lbotos wrote: post #25
bepotts wrote: post #20

I wonder what's Facebook's move after Instagram becomes stale and no longer "cool". It seems to me that the popularity of social networks are cyclical, and there's very little that a company can do to satiate a user's appetite for something new. That's before we discuss future regulatory troubles Facebook might face. What future revenue streams does Facebook have? Are they even capable of creating something new that…

I mean, can they not BUY the next one? It's what they did with Instagram after all. >What future revenue streams does Facebook have? The amount of Data facebook has on the behavioral nature of current parents and current and future American children of said parents is _insane_. Facebook may not be a social media company for ever, but big blue will be an advertising powerhouse for a while with the amount of data they…

The ability to buy the next big thing is far from guaranteed.

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

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Post by asah »

lbotos wrote: post #25
bepotts wrote: post #20

I wonder what's Facebook's move after Instagram becomes stale and no longer "cool". It seems to me that the popularity of social networks are cyclical, and there's very little that a company can do to satiate a user's appetite for something new. That's before we discuss future regulatory troubles Facebook might face. What future revenue streams does Facebook have? Are they even capable of creating something new that…

I mean, can they not BUY the next one? It's what they did with Instagram after all. >What future revenue streams does Facebook have? The amount of Data facebook has on the behavioral nature of current parents and current and future American children of said parents is _insane_. Facebook may not be a social media company for ever, but big blue will be an advertising powerhouse for a while with the amount of data they…

ISWYD "big blue" = FB not IBM.

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

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Post by opportune »

danso wrote: post #23
opportune wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How many pre-announcements must a person make before they are sufficiently prepared for an actual announcement? This is already a pre-announcement of the announcement of the resignation, because this info is leaked from within Instagram

According to the article, this info was leaked to the reporters from several people who knew about it, and the co-founders have already notified Instagram's leadership team. It's not just anyone, but two co-founders of one of the world's most prominent tech companies. If they are indeed leaving "just for fun", presumably they care enough about their company and their colleagues to have given an explanation for their…

I don't understand, what could the founders have done differently? At some point they must make the initial step to notify leadership that they are leaving. This the step that was leaked. Were they supposed to write their own press releases before they even told anybody that they were resigning?
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