> In inclined to believe that neither would have become trillion dollar companies if they had been acquired by Yahoo.

Having worked for Yahoo, I have to agree. Acquisitions were always seen in terms of "what can they do for the Yahoo brand?" and "How can we cut costs by migrating this to Yahoo tech?", not "How can we grow this business?". A Yahoo owned Facebook would have been suffocated like Tumblr and Flickr were.

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noAnswer 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

So it would have been a net positive for society. :-)

	▲	whynotminot 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Good guy Yahoo murdering companies that would have been net bad for society lol

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indymike 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> Yahoo owned Facebook would have been suffocated like Tumblr and Flickr were.

This is really the story for most acquisitions in tech. Interesting that Facebook was able to really do positive things with WhatsApp and Instagram.