Vine founder says don’t sell your company

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Vine founder Rus Yusupov has some advice for the next generation of founders. 

"Don’t sell your company!" he warned on Twitter Thursday after news broke that Twitter would shut down Vine

Don’t sell your company!

— Rus (@rus) October 27, 2016

Yusupov founded Vine, a mobile app that records six-second video loops, in 2012. Twitter bought the app that same year for $30 million. 

While the app developed a unique community of creators that was unlike almost any other on the internet, it drained money and struggled against competitors like Instagram video while under Twitter. 

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