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Why not? ~50 employees, a couple of years old, $8M in funding.
by rokhayakebe 13y ago
Why not? ~50 employees, a couple of years old, $8M in funding.
- MichaelGG 13y ago50 employees? That's awesome. Twitter has like over 2000. Sure, Twitter's infrastructure is more complicated, but still.
- yla92 13y agoFrom this blog post[0], "WhatsApp runs lean. With only 32 engineers" I am very impressed. [0]: http://sequoiacapital.tumblr.com/post/77211282835/four-numbers-that-explain-why-facebook-acquired http://sequoiacapital.tumblr.com/post/77211282835/four-numbe...
- elasticrat 13y agoWhatsapp is 5 years old.
- downandout 13y agoThey were just valued at $19 billion. Kind of not a startup.
- jonknee 13y agoNo, they were acquired for $19B. That's exactly a startup. They had a small amount of VC and the revenue to match, but sold for a king's ransom--the storybook version of a startup.
- downandout 13y agoValue = the amount that someone will pay for something. $19B in this case.
- TheAlchemist 13y agoThat's not value, that's called 'price'