When Facebook had announced they purchased Instagram for $1 billion, I was shocked, but not so shocked all at the same time. I had realised how popular Instagram was, and would get, but $1 billion from a company as powerful, as influential as Facebook? Just strange. Unless you wanted a ready-made, photo-sharing application and its creators, IP and everything else, so that your competition, Google and Twitter, couldn't scoop the opportunity before you could.

It's being reported that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had called Instagram co-creator Kevin Systrom just after Instagram had secured $50 million in venture capitalist funding last Thursday, which pegged its value at $500 million. Zuckerberg called Systrom making his offer known, and by the end of the weekend Facebook acquired Instagram for double their pegged value.

How did Facebook make the deal so quickly? Well, Zuckerberg has majority voting power, where his Class B shares equate to over 57-percent. This makes his decisions kinda final, and his influence over them quite powerful. Most of his suggested plans would go through, unless he had a change of heart or a deliberate abstention from the voting process itself.