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Zuckerberg: Snapchat would have grown faster with us.

The Meta CEO says that the way they were able to grow Instagram post-acquisition gave him confidence he could do the same for other apps, like Snapchat. In 2013, he told his team about an offer to buy the app that Snap CEO Evan Spiegel ultimately rejected.

“For what it’s worth, I think if we had bought them, we probably would have accelerated their growth,” Zuckerberg testifies. “But that’s obviously a speculation.”

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