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Season 4, Episode 3: Instagram Revisited (with Emily White)

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The Impact of Facebook's Acquisition of Instagram on Mobile

Emily, do you think without buying Instagram that Facebook would have been able to succeed on mobile for their own product and how crazy was the ship already turning into native? At that point, they had realized it. But if you're able to take some money off the table along the way and buy a house, you know, it's easier to keep going and build a 150 billion dollar acquisition to buy a house. It's basically crazy.

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