is he going to return the money they paid him?

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I'm really curious: why are you defensive of Zuckerberg? 

IMO he stands for everything Farcaster shouldn't be.

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Has nothing to do with Zuckerberg. 

Systrom sold because he knew scaling was hard / uncertain. 

If he was so confident in Instagram scaling indptly, he wouldn’t have sold. cf. Snap

This is just BS counterfactual virtue signaling.

IIRC Zuck said that he'd destroy them if they didn't get themselves acquired. 

I think most founders would get scared, especially when speaking with the early days of Zuck, when he had an opinion of a guy who's ruthless even to his cofounders

Hmm. Sure he took the check, but nobody can really claim IG hadn’t been scaling well with a small team up until that point. 

This last quote seems very plausible to me given how competitive Zuckerberg is.