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“Above, I didn't mean to imply that we'd be…”

Mark Zuckerberg to David Ebersman, February 28, 2012

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Above, I didn't mean to imply that we'd be buying them to prevent them from competing with us in any way. Buying them would give us the people and time to incorporate their innovations into our core products, which is how we'd do the integration rather than actually combining the products. I'm mostly excited about what the companies could do together if we worked to build what they've invented into more people's experiences.
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Follow-up message to Ebersman, 48 minutes after the "combination of (1) and (3)" reply.

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  1. Feb 27, 2012 Mark Zuckerberg One business questions I've been thinking about recently is how much we should be willing to pay to acquire…
  2. Feb 28, 2012 Mark Zuckerberg Above, I didn't mean to imply that we'd be buying them to prevent them from competing with us in any way.…
  3. Feb 28, 2012 David Ebersman I tend to have a high bar for M&A considerations. All the research I have seen is that most deals fail to…
  4. Feb 28, 2012 Mark Zuckerberg It's a combination of (1) and (3). The basic plan would be to buy these companies and leave their products…