Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
is he going to return the money they paid him?
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GIGAMΞSH
@gigamesh
I'm really curious: why are you defensive of Zuckerberg? IMO he stands for everything Farcaster shouldn't be.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
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.
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Mac Budkowski ᵏ
@macbudkowski
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
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Mac Budkowski ᵏ
@macbudkowski
Also, at least per Palmer Luckey, Zuck is great at courting founders to join Meta. That's how he convinced Palmer to sell Oculus when the project was +/- same age as Instagram was. Plus, when Zuck got a $1B offer from Yahoo back in 2006, he got a lot of pressure from investors and senior employees. Many employees threatened to leave, some eventually left even. So it's a bit more complicated decision tree than "I can grow = don't sell"; "I can't grow = sell".
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