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WhatsApp also appears, at the moment, to have a much simpler business model - you buy it. No advertising technology, no audience/data teams and, probably most s
by inthewoods 11y ago
WhatsApp also appears, at the moment, to have a much simpler business model - you buy it. No advertising technology, no audience/data teams and, probably most significantly, no sales team to go out and get people to use the platform. And no big agency handholding people, no data scientists, no customer success account managers. I'd be curious to see what the breakdown is between tech and sales at Twitter.
- reubenmorais 11y agoThat business model is almost certainly out the window after the Facebook acquisition. They renewed everyone's license automatically, and are probably going to remove it entirely.
- inthewoods 11y agoAgreed - but this is about the number of employees based on their original business model, not what the future holds.
- eecks 11y agoThey renewed licenses before the acquisition