Instagram’s CEO

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Post by quanganhdo » Tue, Sep 25, 2018, 12:54 PM UTC

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Post by indiesolver » Tue, Sep 25, 2018, 2:04 PM UTC

tl;dr : Zuckerberg - Instagram’s real CEO (from the author's "The difference from Zuckerberg — Instagram’s real CEO — is stark")

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Post by mathattack » Tue, Sep 25, 2018, 2:05 PM UTC

Very hard to second guess such a well written article.

Are there instances where the thesis that “folks who outsource the business side to the acquirer” stay? Salesforce seems good at keeping acquirees but enterprise is different. The acquired companies come with their own revenue and field sales.

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Post by teagee » Tue, Sep 25, 2018, 2:06 PM UTC

indiesolver wrote: post #2

tl;dr : Zuckerberg - Instagram’s real CEO (from the author's "The difference from Zuckerberg — Instagram’s real CEO — is stark")

Systrom and Krieger built Instagram the product, Zuckerberg built Instagram the business

Re: Instagram’s CEO

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Post by indiesolver » Tue, Sep 25, 2018, 2:08 PM UTC

teagee wrote: post #4

indiesolver wrote: post #2

tl;dr : Zuckerberg - Instagram’s real CEO (from the author's "The difference from Zuckerberg — Instagram’s real CEO — is stark")

Systrom and Krieger built Instagram the product, Zuckerberg built Instagram the business

and thus Zuckerberg - Instagram’s real CEO

Re: Instagram’s CEO

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Post by beat » Tue, Sep 25, 2018, 2:13 PM UTC

mathattack wrote: post #3

Very hard to second guess such a well written article. Are there instances where the thesis that “folks who outsource the business side to the acquirer” stay? Salesforce seems good at keeping acquirees but enterprise is different. The acquired companies come with their own revenue and field sales.

It's kind of different for enterprise. The acquisition cycle is often to expose a good product to a more deeply entrenched sales system. Acquired companies have proven they have a product that enterprise companies are willing to buy (and go to some pain to do so), but they don't have the ability to sell anything anywhere that someone like Salesforce, IBM, or Atlassian can do.

Re: Instagram’s CEO

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Post by carbocation » Tue, Sep 25, 2018, 2:14 PM UTC

indiesolver wrote: post #2

tl;dr : Zuckerberg - Instagram’s real CEO (from the author's "The difference from Zuckerberg — Instagram’s real CEO — is stark")

This tl;dr really skips over the insightful substance of the article.

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Post by everdev » Tue, Sep 25, 2018, 2:16 PM UTC

Not a positive trend for FB considering the What'sApp founder quit in April: https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/30/jan-koum-quits-facebook/

Giving a single person full control of a company is great when they're on the right track. These have to be warning shots to employees and investors though.

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Post by jhabdas » Tue, Sep 25, 2018, 2:19 PM UTC

For those who covet money titles are more important than to those who covet building great products for users. As a product leader offloading your money challenges into the hands of VC funding is a surefire way to turn vision into greed and slowly destroy one's creative product vision.

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Post by flunhat » Tue, Sep 25, 2018, 2:20 PM UTC

indiesolver wrote: post #2

tl;dr : Zuckerberg - Instagram’s real CEO (from the author's "The difference from Zuckerberg — Instagram’s real CEO — is stark")

Your tl;dr isn't _wrong_, per se. But the article is really well written, and I feel like there's more depth to it than what you've said.

Plus, your statement comes off as kind of cynical and snarky ("no shit, guys" is the tone, even though you probably didn't mean it that way). The piece itself makes some pretty interesting, non-obvious points I think.