Respect the Zuck
Mark Zuckerberg deserves some praise. He has been called a copy cat his entire career— meant to ridicule him. But mergers and acquisitions is a business strategy, and its worth going through some of Zuckerberg's wins.
In 2012 Zuckerberg bought Instagram. Instagram now has 2 billion users, and is now basically the biggest social media company in the world.
2014 Zuckerberg acquired What'sApp, which also has 2 billion users.
2016 he started Instagram Stories, which he copied from Snapchat, and within a year ,he had more people using Instagram Stories than Snapchat had across all of its users combined.
2022 Zuckerberg started Instagram Reels, which is a copy of TikTok, and now he has 2 billion people using Instagram Reels everyday.
2023 Zuckerberg launched Threads, a Twitter copy, and had 100 million users in the first week.
I think we should give credit to Mark Zuckerberg. There is that great Picasso quote: "Good artists copy, great artists steal." Zuckerberg embodies this quote.
You can call Zuckerberg out for being weird, and for being a lizard, and there's also all the misinformation issues with Facebook, but I feel like we're witnessing the greatest corporate artist of all time.
Zuckerberg is showing that Mergers and Acquisitions and Copy-Cat products is truly an art form, and he's taking over the world with it.