On the team’s return from Vegas, the first news was that Facebook would not be able to help them with resources or infrastructure until the deal was actually approved by regulators. That could take many months, according to Facebook’s lawyers. The governments in the U.S. and Europe were investigating whether buying Instagram would give Facebook monopoly powers. Until then, Instagram couldn’t be at Facebook’s headquarters and wouldn’t be able to do much hiring, so they would remain just as overworked.
