No Filter: The inside story of Instagram
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Zuckerberg went to his freezer and pulled out a large slab of venison, or maybe boar—something with lots of bones. “I don’t know what meat this is but I think I hunted it at some point,” he said. The prior year, it was Zuckerberg’s goal to only eat meat from animals he’d killed himself.
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As time passed without any explanation from Systrom, Dorsey stopped feeling hurt and started feeling angry. He realized Systrom had never wanted to sell to Twitter. Twitter had been played. Dorsey deleted the Instagram app and stopped posting altogether.
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Soon after, Instagram employees were invited to a meeting with Facebook’s all-star growth team. Their message was clear: Instagram wouldn’t get any help adding users unless they could determine, through data, that the product wasn’t competitive with Facebook.