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oh and the fact that whatsapp actually is very profitable
by securingsincity 13y ago
oh and the fact that whatsapp actually is very profitable
- klochner 13y agonot very profitable compared to the acquisition price.
- josu 13y ago20 million in revenue last year is very profitable? Twitter makes that in a day.
- MichaelGG 13y agoTwitter generates about $2M in revenue a day. And they make nothing since they're not profitable. So compared to Twitter, WhatsApp is undefined profitable.
- MichaelGG 13y agoIf you can call a P/E of 800+ "very profitable"? Making $20M a year profit is no small thing at all, and I'm sure if it was bought for a billion, you'd see far less comments on the subject.
- corresation 13y agoIt makes $20 million in revenue. I've read that they're profitable, but never the number.
- keypusher 13y ago32 employees * 100,000 = 3.2 million Let's say a million a year for office space and another million for infrastructure and bandwidth, seems like they were fairly profitable for what they had. No idea how Facebook plans to recoup $20 billion though.
- ulfw 13y agoNot with charging $1 a pop, that's for sure.
- ulfw 13y agoGoes to show that only 20 Million out of 430M paid the $1/year (which has something to do with it not being charged everywhere and people having a 1 year grace period and a majority of their target market having no credit card (young audience in emerging markets)). Let's see how Zuckerberg plans to change that drastically.
- err4nt 13y agoWith advertising or selling user information? That seems to be the most likely to me given Facebook's history