This is why you should keep hustling

[snowbank]

http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/19/how-things-change/

Most people never hear all the stories behind the successes.

 

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[Silverhawk851]

Unreal. Anything is possible if your willing to put in the 10 hours daily.

 

[openminded790]

19B, what a dream.

 

[eStan]

What's more impressive is that the founder gets to take home about $6.8 billion from the deal. In-freakin-sane

 

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[teabag]

We hear so many stories of these apps being bought for millions and millions of dollars.

Will this eventually end? It's ridiculously amazing how much Facebook paid for this.

 

[MattCour]

They spend $0 on customer acquisition and acquire 1 mil new customers per day. They have 450 mil active users with massive engagement. The service is free for a year, then $1/ year after that. This is why FB wanted them!

 

[RHL]

Just think too-If he'd been picked up by Facebook or Twitter, he might make $250,000/yr as a software engineer, and go thorough life happy because he had a great job.

It'd take 27,000 years at that salary to equal just his take home portion of this deal.

 

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[mentalic]

We hear so many stories of these apps being bought for millions and millions of dollars.

Will this eventually end? It's ridiculously amazing how much Facebook paid for this.

I read somewhere that Whatsapp could evolve to a Facebook competitor because of the userbase, status updates etc.
That could justify the price a little.

 

[benhebert]

Whatsapp is to messaging as Facebook is to social media.

It's the next big thing, might as well buy the best rather than build your own.

 

[HappyFighter]

Whatsapp is to messaging as Facebook is to social media.

It's the next big thing, might as well buy the best rather than build your own.

Yeah. If you can't beat them... buy them.

 

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[Eskil]

Here is another article on Brian Acton and Jan Koum.
Jan grew up in real poverty, came to the US and lived on foodstamps, and had odds against him.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyol...-whatsapp-into-facebooks-new-19-billion-baby/

 

[Vick]

i remember reading his thread on L4P awhile back. http://www.luxury4play.com/off-topic/24177-yo-check-out-my-iphone-app-its-free-bitches.html

crazy.