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I hear you, and mostly share the point of view, but that’s what people were saying about the instagram valuation too.


Survivorship bias, I think. Our go to is the big, high profile success. But look at the amount of money Zuck has wasted on the Metaverse. He’s most definitely fallible.


What's the dollar-per-user figure between these two examples?


Instagram only had approx 10mn users when acquired. That was a long time ago though, and Facebook was at a very different stage in its lifecycle.




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