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Curiously, Facebook announced buying Instagram a few weeks after this email.

And Instagram, under Facebook's leadership, apparently adopted Renren's "strong culture of cloning things" to the letter: first targeting Snapchat (2015-16), and now targeting Twitter...

Or as someone replied below: > "I personally am pretty in favor of this approach in life generally... I would love to be far more aggressive and nimble in copying competitors at the interface / last mile level"



Even here, Meta is famous for moving very fast compared to rest of FAANG outside Netflix.


Don’t forget Tik Tok with Reels.




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