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The more I think about the acquisition the more I wished WhatsApp would've stayed on their own. $500 million a year is great. I wish they would've pulled a Crai

by debt 13y ago

The more I think about the acquisition the more I wished WhatsApp would've stayed on their own. $500 million a year is great. I wish they would've pulled a Craigslist and become more of a cultural institution than another acquisition; focus more on making chat amazing. I feel like that would've had a larger, net positive effect on the public consciousness. People would see WhatsApp doing it for what's right(don't be evil) then what's profitable and I think that's just a good sentiment to have out there in the aether. They could've easily, easily taken on the Google/Facebook conglomerate.

thisiswrong 13y ago
> They could've easily, easily taken on the Google/Facebook conglomerate. Even better that any of these NSA-friendly conglomerates is the ChatSecure App: "-UNBEATABLE PRIVACY: We keep your messages 100% private using state of the art Off-The-Record (OTR) encryption. Your conversations cannot be logged or intercepted by anyone. -AD-FREE: We want your love, not your money" [1] [1] https://guardianproject.info/apps/chatsecure/ https://guardianproject.info/apps/chatsecure/
soci 13y ago
I wish they would've pulled a Craigslist and become more of a cultural institution than another acquisition; focus more on making chat amazing. Well, I guess that when you've raised 58M in funding it's difficult to stay as a cultural institution. Your investors would never allow you to do that.
amirmc 13y ago
> "I wish they would've pulled a Craigslist..." EBay owns around 25% of Craigslist.
- debt 13y ago
  Then I wish they would've pulled a VSCOcam or something similar. Albeit they're not a cultural institution yet, they seem to be headed in that direction.
- PhantomGremlin 13y ago
  That's a little misleading. It's not like Craigslist wanted eBay as an investor. An ex-employee sold their stock to EBay. Craigslist isn't about to change their ways because eBay owns a piece of them.

by debt 13y ago

thisiswrong 13y ago

> They could've easily, easily taken on the Google/Facebook conglomerate. Even better that any of these NSA-friendly conglomerates is the ChatSecure App: "-UNBEATABLE PRIVACY: We keep your messages 100% private using state of the art Off-The-Record (OTR) encryption. Your conversations cannot be logged or intercepted by anyone. -AD-FREE: We want your love, not your money" [1] [1] https://guardianproject.info/apps/chatsecure/ https://guardianproject.info/apps/chatsecure/

soci 13y ago

I wish they would've pulled a Craigslist and become more of a cultural institution than another acquisition; focus more on making chat amazing. Well, I guess that when you've raised 58M in funding it's difficult to stay as a cultural institution. Your investors would never allow you to do that.

amirmc 13y ago

> "I wish they would've pulled a Craigslist..." EBay owns around 25% of Craigslist.

debt 13y ago
Then I wish they would've pulled a VSCOcam or something similar. Albeit they're not a cultural institution yet, they seem to be headed in that direction.
PhantomGremlin 13y ago
That's a little misleading. It's not like Craigslist wanted eBay as an investor. An ex-employee sold their stock to EBay. Craigslist isn't about to change their ways because eBay owns a piece of them.