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No way is it worth $16 billion.
You don't get what you deserve or what you are worth.....you get what you negotiate.
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No way is it worth $16 billion.
-_- facking retards.
No way is it worth $16 billion.
But it is like the internet bubble, they see an app with a lot of users (traffic for the net) but no revenue, they put some crazy valuation and figure they will worry about monetizing later.
I feel like FB is buying their users now.
But it is like the internet bubble, they see an app with a lot of users (traffic for the net) but no revenue, they put some crazy valuation and figure they will worry about monetizing later.
Zuckerberg may see a few angles others can't see yet.
Jan Koum picked a meaningful spot to sign the $19 billion deal to sell his company WhatsApp to Facebook earlier today. Koum, cofounder Brian Acton and venture capitalist Jim Goetz of Sequoia drove a few blocks from WhatsApp’s discreet headquarters in Mountain View to a disused white building across the railroad tracks, the former North County Social Services office where Koum, 37, once stood in line to collect food stamps.
Koum, who Forbes believes owns 45% of WhatsApp and thus is suddenly worth $6.8 billion
Zuckerberg may see a few angles others can't see yet.
- “We do have a manifesto opposing advertising,” Koum said, according to an April 2013 report from German wire service DPA. “We’re proud of that. Who likes advertising? We’re so bombarded with ads so much in our daily lives and we felt that smartphones aren’t the place for that.”
You do realise that after using Whatsapp for 1 year, you need to pay 99 cents per year there after?
https://blog.whatsapp.com/index.php/2013/07/iphone-v2-10-1-release-notes/
0.99 x 350 million users...
$346,500,000
I feel like FB is buying their users now. Just like Coca Cola... I feel a monopoly coming along.
EDIT: As of 14 February they have 400 million users.
0.99 x 400,000,000
$396,000,000
I was unaware of that, I thought it was a free app.
Also have to account for Apple's 70% cut so with those numbers it would actually be $277,200,000.
I don't think u pay that .99 through Apple or Google. The app is free in their respective stores then after a year u pay through the what's app so they may get the full .99.I was unaware of that, I thought it was a free app.
Also have to account for Apple's 70% cut so with those numbers it would actually be $277,200,000.
And they say fruits good for you.
I don't think u pay that .99 through Apple or Google. The app is free in their respective stores then after a year u pay through the what's app so they may get the full .99.
The Facebook CEO said he contacted WhatsApp's Koum on Feb. 9 to suggest the two companies combine to pursue this vision. Koum thought about it for roughly a week and expressed interest. Then the two met to discuss the price of an acquisition and arrived at the deal that was announced Wednesday.
U serious? Facebook bought the user base and Whatsapp is not really without revenue, it is $1/year and considering their growth of 1 million users a day you can make the calculations where it is going. Besides that, Whatsapp is very popular end expanding quickly in second and third world countries which with time, will accelerate the growth of facebook to have a global domination. Zuck doesn't suck!Which is why Facebook's actions can be considered slow lane - buying something with no revenue and just banking on their ability to make back what they made. Meanwhile WhatsApp turned a free app with a huge user base into $16B, very fast lane
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No way is it worth $16 billion.
"Once we get to a service with 1 billion, 2, maybe 3 billion users one day ... then we can think about ways to monetize."
U serious? Facebook bought the user base and Whatsapp is not really without revenue, it is $1/year and considering their growth of 1 million users a day you can make the calculations where it is going. Besides that, Whatsapp is very popular end expanding quickly in second and third world countries which with time, will accelerate the growth of facebook to have a global domination. Zuck doesn't suck!
P.S.: this leaves SnapChat with a finger in the butt.
hahah that's fair toobingo, but i'd change domination to penetration
Which is why Facebook's actions can be considered slow lane - buying something with no revenue and just banking on their ability to make back what they made. Meanwhile WhatsApp turned a free app with a huge user base into $16B, very fast lane.
The contrast in this one deal is a great example of two different business mindsets.
Really cool to see, great share!
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