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Instagram Co-Founders to Step Down From Facebook
The two co-founders of Facebook Inc.'s popular Instagram app are stepping down, a move marking continued tumult at the social-networking giant.
The co-founders—Kevin Systrom, Instagram's chief executive, and Mike Krieger, chief technology officer—clashed with Facebook executives over the extent of Instagram's autonomy in recent months, according to people familiar with the matter. Earlier this year, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg shifted a senior Facebook executive, Adam Mosseri, over to Instagram in anticipation that the founders might leave, one of the people said.
Among other things, Facebook officials, including Mr. Zuckerberg, clashed with the co-founders over growth tactics and how to more rapidly expand the photo-sharing app's user base, another person said. Senior Facebook officials had known the two men were frustrated working within a large company and had begun making preparations for them to leave, another person familiar with the matter said.
Also at NYT, The Atlantic, and Gizmodo.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 26 2018, @11:41PM (8 children)
Somebody got triggered.
The only grammatical error in "What if they were a billionaire with some kind of ethical boundary." is the punctuation at the end. What is a question word, so the terminating punctuation should have been a question mark. Languages change over time. Deal with it, cupcake.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 26 2018, @11:52PM (7 children)
Language is a protocol, and a protocol requires agreement.
In mundane cases, one participant in the protocol can just re-write mistakes on the fly with little worry; that's the only reason singular "they" appears to work—it's always being re-written behind the scenes.
You have provided yet another interpretation; we've already seen from the replies here that nobody is really talking about the same thing, because everyone is re-writing it in slightly different ways. But, he, diversity is a strength, amirite?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 27 2018, @12:02AM (4 children)
I am sorry that you suffer from autism. It must make many activities that neurotypical people take for granted very difficult. I have heard promising things about the application of cannabis bud in cases of autism.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 27 2018, @12:31AM (3 children)
It has made me very rich.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 27 2018, @01:14AM (2 children)
Allow me to imitate the UN delegation.
*snort* lol!
Just to be clear, I am laughing at you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 27 2018, @02:56AM (1 child)
So, laugh away if it makes you feel better.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 27 2018, @03:20AM
It does, thank you. Laughter has many benefits that are documented in the relevant medical literature. I appreciate your services as court jester. I really do! You're special to me! I will refer to you as she from now on. You've earned it!
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday September 27 2018, @01:36AM (1 child)
Not from you, it doesn't. Your toddler has to agree because you have the terrible power of the fridge and the car keys.
They would anyway. So many people here aren't actually responding to what you write in the first place. Particularly, the sort that starts posts with "So what you're saying is..."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 27 2018, @02:27AM
Or are you just a parrot he's trained well?