This is as bold as Instagram and WhatsApp were at the time, typical Zuck move, most likely a successful story, perhaps bigger than the other two.
See, when he paid $1 billion in 2012 for a 7 employees company, everybody thought it is the biggest mistake he made.
Who he paid $21.8 billion in 2014 for 55 employees size messaging company, people said similar things, but both turned out to be a great success in market dominance.
Scale serves the top tier AI companies, and Alexandr is a prodigy by all means, so hell ye.
Unlike many other cases where M&A simply killed the companies / product, here it is going to be power multiplier, Meta's data to scale and back, will make scale better and meta's AI better.
See, when he paid $1 billion in 2012 for a 7 employees company, everybody thought it is the biggest mistake he made.
Who he paid $21.8 billion in 2014 for 55 employees size messaging company, people said similar things, but both turned out to be a great success in market dominance.
Scale serves the top tier AI companies, and Alexandr is a prodigy by all means, so hell ye.
Unlike many other cases where M&A simply killed the companies / product, here it is going to be power multiplier, Meta's data to scale and back, will make scale better and meta's AI better.