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jraby3 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and ...

They bought insta and WhatsApp but at the time neither were really social networks. Insta was a popular filtering app. WhatsApp is just recently turning into a social network with their status updates.

coliveira 3 months ago [–]

That's a completely revisionist take. These apps were seen as the next wave of social networks that would compete with Facebook when it bought them.

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