When Facebook acquired Instagram in April 2012, CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a blog post: "We're committed to building and growing Instagram independently." Today, one of Facebook's brightest product managers, Peter X. Deng, is joining Instagram as its first Director of Product. A key piece of Facebook's astronomical growth is about to start the engines at Instagram — but when you bring in deep Facebook experience at growing quickly, there's a real chance you'll end up with something that looks like Facebook.
Since he joined Facebook in 2007, Deng has become an expert at building out product teams. He once helmed a critical redesign of News Feed, much of which still still stands today, and most recently led Facebook's rapidly...
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