These are not the words of a CEO who thinks another company is making a business that compliments his own - they're confessions that he is worried that they will *compete* with Facebook. Facebook tried to clone Insta (Remember Facebook Camera? Don't feel bad - neither does anyone else). When that failed, Zuck emailed Facebook execs, writing:
> [Instagram's growth is] really scary and why we might want to consider paying a lot of money for this.
7/
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