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John Boyd Bolton is one of those guys who never wanted to work at a big company

because he likes the energy that comes with working at a startup.

And back in 2016, things were looking pretty good for John.

He was an executive at Flipagram.

It's an app that lets people stitch together photos and music

to make little montages for social media.

We were just cruising at Flipagram.

And we thought we were going to be the next Instagram

because the numbers we had were just staggering.

And you know what happens when you get big in the startup world?

Either you get really, really big and you go public or you get acquired.

And John was hoping Flipagram might get bought by a big name tech company

like Apple or Facebook.

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