According to Systrom, Zuckerberg may have been directly involved in yanking resources after integrating Instagram and Facebook because "as the founder of Facebook, he felt a lot of emotion around which one was better—Instagram or Facebook," The Financial Times reported.

Instagram would have been successful even if Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg had never purchased the photo-sharing app for $1 billion in 2012, co-founder Kevin Systrom said during the FTC’s