Instagram and the golden goose

Something about golden eggs
I remember something about a fairy tale about someone that had a goose that laid golden eggs.  The details are fuzzy, but I think that the owner of the goose eventually got greedy and killed the goose to get all the eggs at once.  Obviously, that didn't work for them.

By now you should have heard that Facebook bought Instagram for a billion dollars.  A billion dollars.  Try and imagine that number.  Sheesh.  That's one-thousand millions.  That would be enough to build forty world-class indoor skateparks... in EVERY STATE IN THE U.S. (I only need ONE!)

A lot has been said about whether Facebook overpaid for Instagram.  I don't really care.  It's their money, and they can spend it however they want.  I wasn't an Instagram user, so I don't care about this rebel alliance getting bought by the evil empire.  I don't plan on building a career in mergers & acquisitions, so I don't care to make a case study about what you can get for a billion dollars (unless we're talking about skateparks.) What I DO care about is the lesson that we can take from Instagram about patiently