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Twitter has over 7000 employees, for WhatsApp's business model to work they'd need to cut this by 10x or so and there is no way they justify the 45 billion valu
by qwytw 5y ago
Twitter has over 7000 employees, for WhatsApp's business model to work they'd need to cut this by 10x or so and there is no way they justify the 45 billion valuation if they do that.
- dd36 5y agoHuh? I’m not following. Why would this hurt revenue? Authenticated real people are more valuable to advertisers.
- yywwbbn 5y agoDid WhatsApp have Ads? I thought all their income was from subscriptions? If it’s only for verification they, yeah, they might be fine as long as the verification fee is optional.
- dd36 5y agoI do not believe they are literally applying the WhatsApp model. The point was that small amounts of money are tolerable in a network effect.