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Didn’t WhatsApp solve this problem? Were they self-sustaining before the Facebook acquisition, or am I misremembering things?
by neartheplain 6y ago
Didn’t WhatsApp solve this problem? Were they self-sustaining before the Facebook acquisition, or am I misremembering things?
- DSingularity 6y agoIf the founders want to become billionaires maybe self sustaining is not the goal.
- znpy 6y agoyup, 1$/year IIRC. I'd be okay with this, as long as there's an anonymous way of paying.
- neartheplain 6y agoWas that revenue enough to keep the lights on indefinitely? I’m having a hard time Googling this, but I recall an article circa the FB acquisition which stated that WhatsApp’s subscription fee model + efficient backend programming had already become self-sustaining. Wish I could find that article now.
- bpodgursky 6y agoIIRC it's unclear how many people ever ended up paying. The first year was free, and then (many?) people got free extensions, year after year.
- justapassenger 6y agoAll we know for sure if that they had some revenue. No one knows if they were reliably self sustaining. Especially as you grow, the costs balloon.