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Re:WhatsApp Cofounder on How It Reached 1.3B Users Without L... by inthewoods on Sunday September 03, 2017 @08:53PM (#15164874)
>This allowed them to _SCALE_ revenue because they're basically dividing by zero (Income v. Expenses)

Don't disagree with anything you said except scaling revenue. As far as I can tell they never really scaled revenue, but instead became such a threat to FB in terms of users that Zuck felt he had to give up a substantial portion of his company to own them.

Or put another way, if FB (or anyone else) and not bought them, where would they be?

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Re:WhatsApp Cofounder on How It Reached 1.3B Users Without L... by ramses0 on Monday September 04, 2017 @07:39PM (#15171522)
Probably 20-50 people, 100-200 servers, and comfortably sitting on 10-30% of global instant messaging traffic running through their servers. If that's not somewhat interesting to somebody then I've got a bridge to sell you.
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Re:WhatsApp Cofounder on How It Reached 1.3B Users Without L... by inthewoods on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @09:51AM (#15183626)
It's not a question of "somewhat interesting" - it's a question of what would be their revenue source.
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