# Why is Instagram worth $1 billion to Facebook and Zuckerberg?

<http://www.suntimes.com/technology/ihnatko/11819998-452/why-is-instagram-worth-1-billion-to-facebook-and-zuckerberg.html>

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## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

Troublingly, my best theory was that Mark Zuckerberg stood to inherit a trillion dollars from his eccentric uncle, but only if he could spend a billion dollars in less than an hour without acquiring any tangible property.

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