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Whatsapp: 500 million users for $18b. Slack: ~10 million users for $9b? This doesn't make much sense to me. What's the rationale behind this?
by rsp1984 9y ago
Whatsapp: 500 million users for $18b.
Slack: ~10 million users for $9b?
This doesn't make much sense to me. What's the rationale behind this?
- josefresco 9y agoJust guessing: Maybe the user base is more "business-y" and therefore valued higher than the general public?
- askafriend 9y agoThose are 10mm mostly enterprise users. A lot of them are on paid plans on company budgets. Different product means different user economics.
- nathan_f77 9y agoThe business models are completely different. Whatsapp users were paying something like $2 per year, while businesses are paying $8 per user per month.
- dexterdog 9y agoI think most whatsapp users were paying $0. I know I was.
- oculusthrift 9y agojust counting users would make twitter worth way more than it is. monetization matters