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How did dating become a multi-billion dollar business?

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We are hosting Land of the Giants, a podcast about the biggest tech companies of our time.

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Hello, and welcome to decoder. I'm Neil iPadell, Editor and Chief of the Verge,

and decoder is my new podcast about big ideas and other problems.

My guest today is Adam Misari, who is the Facebook Executive and Charge of Instagram.

This title is simply, head of Instagram.

Misari started at Facebook over a decade ago as a designer, and he's held a number of important roles in the company since then.

At one point, he was responsible for Facebook's entire news feed and the algorithms behind it.

He came to Instagram as head of product, and then took over the platform entirely when Founders' Kevin System

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