On this day in 2012 Facebook bought Instagram for $1B — which Meta engineer made the case?
sahilypatel · x · 2026-09-06
On this day in 2012, Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion. The poster thanks a still-anonymous Meta engineer who helped Zuck make the call, guessing it was Boz (Boztank).
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