FTC v. Meta: the antitrust battle over Instagram and WhatsApp
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Instagram investor testifies about the app’s growth before Meta’s acquisition.
We’re watching pre-recorded video testimony from Sequoia’s Roelof Botha, who spoke with attorneys in this case in January 2023 about his firm’s investment in Instagram in 2012, just before Meta acquired it. Botha describes the app’s rapid growth and resonance with users at the time, stating that Sequoia likely would have been able to help Instagram obtain the resources it needed to scale had Meta not intervened.
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