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Re:Artifact – A personalized news feed, by the Instagram fou... by zimpenfish on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @04:29PM (#34602468)

    - who may well just sell out to Facebook again after a couple of years[1]

[1] No shade - if Facebook offered me $billions for my user generated content site, I'd be at the bank quicker than you could imagine but I wouldn't expect anyone to trust me with user content again.
Re:Artifact – A personalized news feed, by the Instagram fou... by makerofspoons on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @05:20PM (#34603131)
I don't think there's any love between Zuckerberg and Instagram's founders: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-04-07/zuckerber...
Re:Artifact – A personalized news feed, by the Instagram fou... by BbzzbB on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @09:26PM (#34605550)
What's interpersonal love got to do with it? Everyone would love 9-10 figure checks.
Re:Artifact – A personalized news feed, by the Instagram fou... by mdwalters on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @07:11PM (#34604317)
Let's just hope this doesn't happen...
Re:Artifact – A personalized news feed, by the Instagram fou... by omeid2 on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @02:34AM (#34607579)
omeid: Write a poem about futility of hope, hope alone.

ChatGPT3:

  Hope, a beacon of light in the dark,
  A shining star in the depths of despair.
  A promise of better days, a ray of hope,
  A wish for the future, a prayer.
  
  But hope alone is just a fleeting thought,
  A mirage in the desert, a dream.
  It's just a spark, a flicker, a flame,
  A wish for what might have been.
  
  For hope alone cannot change the world,
  It cannot heal a broken heart.
  It cannot cure the sick, or ease the pain,
  Or bring about a brand new start.
  
  Hope alone cannot make the rain fall,
  Or calm the stormy sea.
  It cannot mend the broken bridge,
  Or make the mountains move with ease.
  
  Hope alone is just a feeling,
  A wishful thought, a dreamer's prayer.
  It's just a whisper in the wind,
  A hope that's lost in the air.
  
  So hold on tight to hope, my friend,
  But never let it be your only guide.
  For hope alone is just a fantasy,
  A fleeting dream that can't abide.
Re:Artifact – A personalized news feed, by the Instagram fou... by misiti3780 on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @05:33AM (#34608745)
it wasnt billions, it was 1 billion
Re:Artifact – A personalized news feed, by the Instagram fou... by zimpenfish on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @07:09AM (#34609411)
"$1,000,000,000 in 2012 is worth $1,292,703,642.08 today"

Which is more than $1bn and therefore qualifies as "billions".

Re:Artifact – A personalized news feed, by the Instagram fou... by graphe on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @07:21AM (#34609508)
I can't believe your ego couldn't take that. $109 isn't hundreds of dollars.
Re:Artifact – A personalized news feed, by the Instagram fou... by prostanac on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @10:41AM (#34612042)
and $900,000,000 today will someday be worth over $1B, but we don't call them billions.
Re:Artifact – A personalized news feed, by the Instagram fou... by Terretta on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @09:23AM (#34610817)
Brian Acton who sold Facebook his WhatsApp would like a word.

Ask him why he walked away from his final billion (with a b) dollar payment.

In a long piece by Forbes, Mr Acton refers to himself as “a sellout” despite taking what Forbes journalist Parmy Olson described as “perhaps the most expensive moral stand in history”.

After he became fed up by Facebook’s desire to find a way to squeeze personal ads into WhatsApp, he walked away from the company a year before his final tranche of stock grants vested — a common payment method to reward workers with the ability to cash in shares if they stick around.

But he knew what he was doing. The day he left he took a screenshot of the stock price on his way out the door. The decision to leave cost him about $1.17 billion.

https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/im-a-sellou...

Re:Artifact – A personalized news feed, by the Instagram fou... by oblio on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @09:30AM (#34610924)
It cost him $1bn once he was already worth about $3.5bn...
Re:Artifact – A personalized news feed, by the Instagram fou... by Terretta on Thursday February 02, 2023 @10:14AM (#34627618)
I think a third of one's lifetime earnings would give most people pause.
Re:Artifact – A personalized news feed, by the Instagram fou... by oblio on Thursday February 02, 2023 @12:11PM (#34629665)
If those lifetime earnings wouldn't already cover absolutely everything one needs except for money to conquer an entire country with...