Season 4, Episode 3: Instagram Revisited (with Emily White)

We enter the wayback machine and revisit the subject of
Acquired’s second ever episode, Facebook’s bombshell 2012
acquisition of Instagram — this time with the help of
then-Facebook executive Emily White, who moved over
post-acquisition to become Instagram’s first business head.
Together with Kevin and Mike, Emily helped build Instagram's
business model, which today accounts for nearly 1/4 of all of
Facebook’s revenue. Is this still Acquired’s canonical A+ with an
extra 3.5 years of hindsight? Spoiler alert: yes.


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Carve Outs:

Ben: Sam Harris on the Joe Rogan Experience:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ5_hAEsLkU

David: Boom Town by Sam Anderson:
 https://www.amazon.com/Boom-Town-Fantastical-Basketball-World-class-ebook/dp/B077RHYC4G