Acquired

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

Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal 1h 17m 86 months ago

Every company has a story. Learn the playbooks that built the world’s greatest companies — and how you can apply them.

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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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