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"there are likely fewer than 2,000 employees left at the company." To me, that still seem like an unnecessarily large team. WhatsApp had only 55 employees when
by fxtentacle 4y ago
"there are likely fewer than 2,000 employees left at the company."
To me, that still seem like an unnecessarily large team. WhatsApp had only 55 employees when they got acquired.
- Dudelander 4y agoWhatsApp is a very simple application. I don't want to minimize what they did, because good interface design is hard to do, but it's just an instant messaging and voip client. You can message a maximum of 512 people on whatsapp. Barack Obama can message 133.3 million on twitter. These technical challenges aren't even on the same planet.
- crote 4y agoAt the time of acquisition WhatsApp had a group size limit of 100 people. It also did not yet have: - Document sharing - Voice / video calls - End-to-end encryption - Read receipts - WhatsApp Web Still an impressive piece of engineering, but definitely a completely different beast.