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He definitely has horrible product instincts, but he also bought insta and whatsapp at what were, back then, eye-watering prices, and these were clearly massive successes in terms of killing off threats to the mothership. Everything since then, though…


I know but isn't "massive success" rubbing up against antitrust here? The condition was "Don't share data with Facebook"




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