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It's in the article (see google cache). They were about to be valued at $500M in the next round of investment, during the next week. Zuck had to move fast, and he did. He bought them 2 times the supposed valuation, which is probably what Instagram expected.

(PS: Negotiation 101, start with a number 2x bigger than what you expect)

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