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And a fricking messenger app sold for $21.8 billion. Unbelievable.

• didip 5y ago
  When you look at how scared Facebook was of WhatsApp and combined that with FB market cap... $22 billion makes so much sense.
• macspoofing 5y ago
  To be fair, nobody was under any illusion that this valuation had anything to do with the technology WhatsApp developed. Any half competent team could recreate WhatsApp. The price was for 1 billion active users. That's a little harder to get.
• analognoise 5y ago
  Real stuff isn't highly valued.
• jokoon 5y ago
  Being able to do sentiment analysis on all the consumers of the world is a goldmine for revenue. Marketing doesn't have a good reputation, but information is power.
• ncr100 5y ago
  Believe the numbers, with more numbers: Comparing numerically, the revenue generated from ($21.8b) WhatsApp is higher than from Boston Dynamics ($880M). For 2020 WhatsApp approximately == $5.5b (Forbes https://www.businessofapps.com/data/whatsapp-statistics/ https://www.businessofapps.com/data/whatsapp-statistics/) For 2020 Boston Dynamics == $53m (GrowJo https://growjo.com/company/Boston_Dynamics https://growjo.com/company/Boston_Dynamics)