Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom says Zuckerberg “saw us as a threat”

When Instagram was obtained for a billion dollars in 2012, co -founder Kevin Systrom believed that joining Facebook would help “Skyrocting” in Instagram reach access to greater levels.

In some respects, I did. Systrom said on Tuesday from a courtroom in Washington, DC, “Instagram now has billions of users and since then,” has generated many complications from this price and then some. “But according to it, this success came despite the help of Facebook.

During the testimony of the Federal Trade Committee’s suit to force the secession from Instagram and WhatsApp from Meta, Systrom said that CEO Mark Zuckerberg repeatedly blocking critical resources from Instagram and restricting his growth to avoid damage to Facebook. For the anger of Meta’s lawyers, Systrom also predicted how Instagram was likely to succeed after it was too late.

For about six hours, Systrom shadow is fixed and confident in the witness platform. Zuckerberg sat himself in the same seat last week, describing how Instagram is not the strength of social media today without helping him. On the other hand, I photographed the Systrom Zuckerberg Certificate as the head of blocking and jealous. He described how he and another co -founder of Instagram resigned, Mike Crager, in 2018 after we were increasingly frustrated by Zuckerberg’s interference in Instagram operations.

In court, an internal plan from Systrom of the same year shows in detail the features of the feature that it created with Instagram. With the help of features such as notifications that enhance Instagram inside Facebook and the cross -off applications, Instagram has seen growth, while Facebook has witnessed a neutral impact.

Systrom said that shortly before his resignation is Krieger, Zuckerberg decided to end the integration of features because, from Systrom’s point of view, he did not want to grow Instagram at the Facebook account. “We were a threat to their growth,” saw Systrom.

“If Instagram does not grow quickly, Facebook will not shrink quickly or plateau at speed,” Systrom said in court. “I don’t think it is [Zuckerberg] Ever I said this loudly this way, but this is the only reason that made us conduct this discussion. “

At that time, Instagram had just reached one billion users, and about half of the Facebook user base, with a small part of the employees. Systrom felt that Zuckerberg was “unlimited” in Instagram and gave him “zero resources”, which Systrom believed to be “in a flagrant contradiction with the effort it made.”

According to Systrom, the ego played a role. Zuckerberg was “very happy with the presence of Instagram in the family.” “But also, I think he is the founder of Facebook, he felt a lot of feelings that one was better, and this means Instagram or Facebook, and I think there are real emotional things.”

Remember SYSTROM other cases where Instagram has rejected the resources it needs. When Mark Zuckerberg announced that the video will be the next big shift in social networks, Facebook started to customize the internal resources for payment. The company initially allocated 300 employees to make the video a prominent part of Facebook, while Instagram did not receive any additional number.

In the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal that was involved in a controversy on privacy practices, Systrom stated that his organization received “zero” from billions of dollars in the resources of trust and safety that Zuckerberg committed to spending publicly. Instead, he said that Instagram was given access to a central team that was more focused on Facebook. He also described how, years ago, Zuckerberg suddenly extracted the members of the Facebook growth team to help Instagram.

During the interrogation, the definition lawyer Kevin Hof tried to discredit Systrom certificate. I barely gave an inch by keeping that Instagram was likely to be successful as an independent company. “You are dealing with a world of possibilities,” he said. “You can never be sure. Some things you can be sure of.”

Hove interrogation obtained Systrom on several occasions. His stone -faced stone responses pushed rounds of laughter in the media hall in the court, although Judge James Bouasburg is rarely smiling. When HUFF introduced an early email sent to Zuckerberg, which is attributed to complementary with Facebook in most early Instagram’s early growth, Systrom said it is focusing only on the benefit to please Zuckerberg.

Then he asked Systrom if he was lying to Zuckerberg in the email. It seems angry, Systrom stared again and said simply, “Sir.”