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Mosseri calls the first version of Reels his ‘biggest mistake.’

The first time around, Instagram tried to build its short-form video concept on top of Stories, which he says was “not a sound foundation” for the product. “I think we could have and should have been more aggressive,” he says about building Reels and competing with TikTok.

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