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Re:The Instagram Architecture Facebook Bought for a Cool Bil... by Retric on Monday April 09, 2012 @10:19PM (#3820357)
They also had ~50 million in the bank after a funding round that was so recent they could not have spent much of the money. Which means FB got a 5% discount on that billion dollar price tag and helps to make all those estimates just that much more reasonable.
Re:The Instagram Architecture Facebook Bought for a Cool Bil... by ajslater on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @07:59PM (#3825152)
Didn't Sequoia make a big YouTube investment suspiciously immediately before acquisition?