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WhatsApp had 55 employees and was acquired for $22 billion (IIRC). Seems like 550 engineers could be plenty productive if in the right scenario (emphasis on if
by baby-yoda 4y ago
WhatsApp had 55 employees and was acquired for $22 billion (IIRC).
Seems like 550 engineers could be plenty productive if in the right scenario (emphasis on if).
- vkou 4y agoIt was acquired by Facebook, for whom they were an existential threat.
- weitzj 4y agoI think I read some where that this was quite cheap. Just approx $8 to get a social profile of a user on your platform
- acdha 4y agoWhatsApp is a very different product: it’s built around one to one communication so you don’t get all of the fan out problems of having to distribute messages everyone’s followers, or the search / advertising / timeline filtering. Consider that there are single people who can post something which will be watched within seconds by millions of people, except those who have blocked that person or filtered that topic and ask how hard that looks behind the scenes.