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• insomnie

  I'm not saying it's a conspiracy, but it's a conspiracy!

  "Last week, Instagram closed a $50 million financing round with several prominent investors, including Sequoia Capital, an early backer of Google; Thrive Capital, the firm run by Joshua Kushner; and Greylock Capital, an early investor of LinkedIn. The round valued the photo service at about $500 million, according to one person with knowledge of the matter, who requested anonymity because the discussions were private. With Facebook's purchase, one week later, that investment has now doubled in value. " - NYT

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• JG_LB

  

  • hah– akrok1/2

    lol– aliastime2/2

  

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  Dog-earApr 9, 12, 1:39 p.m. – Permalink

• 2002

  WHAT HE IS SAYING IS THAT SILICON VALLEY INSIDERS ARE MAKING MONEY THROUGH INSIDE KNOWLEDGE JUST LIKE WALL STREET.

  • The rich get richer and the poor... The poor! Haha!– d_rek

  

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  Dog-earApr 9, 12, 1:40 p.m. – Permalink

• prophetone

  

  • hahahaha
    it never fails– Miguex1/3

    lol i agree, this gif always puts things in perspective– eighteen2/3

    That's Beautiful!– pillhead3/3

  

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  Dog-earApr 9, 12, 1:42 p.m. – Permalink

• insomnie

  2002 yes!

  

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  Dog-earApr 9, 12, 1:45 p.m. – Permalink

• JG_LB

  hedge?

  

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  Dog-earApr 9, 12, 1:46 p.m. – Permalink

• monospaced

  Facebook bought it for $1 billion

  • http://www.macworld.…– monospaced

  

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  Dog-earApr 9, 12, 1:57 p.m. – Permalink

• 2002

  ^ NO WAY THATS A BRAND NEW NEWS WHICH HAS NO RELEVANCE!!!

  • my bad– monospaced

  

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  Dog-earApr 9, 12, 2 p.m. – Permalink

• monNom

  I don't get it.

  

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  Dog-earApr 9, 12, 2:04 p.m. – Permalink

• randommail

  Yup this is the latest bubble.
  There's always a bubble that Wall Street will scam the public to jump into.

  

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  Dog-earApr 9, 12, 2:05 p.m. – Permalink

• 2002

  for monNom

  Last week
  - value $500m - yay lets invest knowing that facebook will buy this

  This week
  - value $1billion - yay we completely suckered facebook and doubled our money yay

  

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  Dog-earApr 9, 12, 2:07 p.m. – Permalink

• monNom

  oh I get that. I just don't get why anyone would pay so much for so little... unless the whole thing was about transferring money from one pocket to the other.

  • see below– 2002

  

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  Dog-earApr 9, 12, 2:09 p.m. – Permalink

• 2002

  My conspiracy theory:

  Due to SEC's rule which limits number of investors on none public company (Facebook), the venture capital companies are going through the backdoor of owning facebook pre-IPO stocks. The deal is cash and stock.

  • interesting idea...– mg331/2

    2002 is on the right track.– aldebaran2/2

  

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  Dog-earApr 9, 12, 2:10 p.m. – Permalink

• 2002

  ^ meant to say, buying pre-IPO Stock at cheaper price, compared to now ceased secondary market.

  • when IPO hits in May, they just tripled their money with in a month.– 20021/3

    I don't WANT to wait for May! I want it NOW, now NOW!– monospaced2/3

    *holds breath and crosses arms– monospaced3/3

  

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  Dog-earApr 9, 12, 2:11 p.m. – Permalink

• monospaced

  monNom, it's not "so little" in the sense that it will keep millions of users attached to Facebook with Instagram for years to come. This means more ad exposure and more money. It might not seem worth $1B, but it seems so to FB.

  • Were these users on the verge of leaving? No.– i_monk1/2

    why you're arguing, I don't know, but the simple answer is that FB wants more product (people) and for longer– monospaced2/2

  

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  Dog-earApr 9, 12, 2:13 p.m. – Permalink

• Miguex

  

  • 2nd best gif of this thread!– eighteen

  

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  Dog-earApr 9, 12, 2:23 p.m. – Permalink

• aldebaran

  It's what's known as a 'pump and dump scheme'.

  Let's call it 'Pump and Dump 2.0' for fun.

  • bingo– 2002

  

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  Dog-earApr 9, 12, 2:26 p.m. – Permalink

• tredesigns

  was instagram even profitable.

  • didn't they just make a billion dollars?– pango1/2

    b4 the buy out– tredesigns2/2

  

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  Dog-earApr 9, 12, 7:43 p.m. – Permalink

• Miguex

  

  under 15 employees?
  in only 2 years?
  no way man, that shit was not profitable at all...

  • 1 billion dollars– Miguex

  

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  Dog-earApr 9, 12, 8:32 p.m. – Permalink

• 2002

  This is not about profitability. This is about "buy everything that competition can potentially buy".

  And seems very much like Netscape deal in the 90s (any sort of dot com dump deal in the 90s).

  Lets use this as a vehicle to make more money for silicon valley insiders. Public will buy this up and we get out while they are holding the bags.

  

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  Dog-earApr 9, 12, 8:55 p.m. – Permalink

• pillhead

  Instagram, 500M hahahahaha

  • Good Luck with that.– pillhead

  

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  Dog-earApr 10, 12, 1:49 a.m. – Permalink