Facebook poisons the acquisition well

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Whether or not I feel bad for mikeyk and kevin depends on whether or not they came up with (not so) "bright idea" of blocking videos we recorded at events we went to (concerts, local festivals). Fans can't promote artists now? Old instagram was better for that.

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If you are a startup looking to sell, you will take the best offer that meets the conditions of your investors and/or the founders. Whether it is Facebook or some other company will not matter in the majority of cases.

Hey idiots those founders are billionaires I don’t think any well has been poisoned, just made very very rich.

Really interesting consequence of these founders departures from Facebook. Will be interesting to see how this affects future Facebook acquisitions. BCSTT

JoshConstine I think they poisoned the acquisition well paying $22 billion for a 30 person company with no revenue.

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