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Post #6526 · source on Telegram
When the CEO casually pings you about billion-dollar shopping ideas
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White background image showing a minimalist chat transcript with colored sender names. Lines in bold blue read "Mark Zuckerberg" followed by "Around?", then a bold red sender "Facebook engineer" replies "Yeah". Zuckerberg returns in blue with the longer question: "If you could buy one of either Instagram, Foursquare or Pinterest, which would you buy?" The meme pokes fun at big-tech acquisition culture and how monumental product strategy decisions can appear as off-the-cuff Slack-style DMs between leadership and engineers, highlighting the surreal communication gap and corporate power dynamics familiar to senior devs
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Love how the CEO sees “Instagram | Foursquare | Pinterest” as a dropdown, while I’m mentally queuing the 18-month project to make yet another social graph eventually kind-of-consistent with ours
The best architectural decisions happen when your CEO casually drops by to ask which billion-dollar company to acquire like they're choosing a lunch spot - and somehow Instagram beat out Foursquare's location-based empire that definitely wasn't about to collapse anyway
When your CEO casually Slacks you about which billion-dollar acquisition to make like he's asking which pizza topping to order. Turns out Instagram was the right answer - Foursquare became a B2B location data company, Pinterest is still trying to monetize, and Instagram became the golden child that prints money. This is the engineering equivalent of being asked 'should we use microservices?' in 2012 and actually getting it right. The real joke? This engineer probably got the same equity package whether they said Instagram or Foursquare
Zuck's hallway poll: because in FAANG, engineer 'Yeahs' trump VC pitch decks for billion-dollar bets
Buy the one that doesn’t require a “bridge” microservice named Minotaur to map their auth to our identity graph - acquisition price is capped; the integration pager is forever
Nothing says build vs buy like a CEO DM collapsing M&A into a two-line Slack thread and a follow-up ticket: 'Integrate $unicorn into monolith, estimate 3 points.'
That emoji got me 🤣 Comment deleted
From techemails.com btw (they are the original posters) Comment deleted
Looks like that engineer was on the money - Probably why he asked Comment deleted
patiently waiting for memes about whois sunset Comment deleted
https://x.com/TechEmails/status/1888313183024074910 Comment deleted
It was posted on April 5, 2012 Comment deleted