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Nobody has answered the OP's question: why $18B? why not $18M or $523M?
by nodata 13y ago
Nobody has answered the OP's question: why $18B? why not $18M or $523M?
- jmathai 13y agoIsn't the price somewhat arbitrary? WhatsApp's market value is based not on revenue but on what the highest bidder will give them. WhatsApp probably had an idea of what the big players (Apple, Google, Facebook) might offer and that becomes what their going rate is. I don't know if this is how the amount of an offer is determined but it sounds plausible to me.
- coralreef 13y agoWhatsapp does charge $1/year or something, so that times XXX million users = some baseline value.