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Facebook's Acquisition of WhatsApp
Facebook feared that it too might die one day and therefore want to make sure that it was buying companies before they became the next Facebook. All of this was done, you know, because of the green light of antitrust authorities none of it was necessarily inevitable so I go through how a lot of these these monopolies that seem impregnable basically it's the result of regulatory failures allowing competitors to buy each other. And all these are due to regulatory missteps that could be fixed.