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Zuckerberg can’t rule out that Instagram would have succeeded on its own.

But he points out that the largest platforms today have had the backing of larger companies with massive infrastructure, like Google’s YouTube and ByteDance’s TikTok. “Could I say it would have been impossible for them to do it without us? Obviously not. I mean, we did it,” he says. “But does it seem like it would have been likely?” Definitely not, he says.

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