Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook

Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook by nsp on Monday April 30, 2018 @06:11PM (#16962887)

Because the people who are most valuable to show ads to are also the most likely to be be willing to pay $10/mo to not see ads.

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Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook by killjoywashere on Monday April 30, 2018 @09:01PM (#16963875)

I pay for Spotify and Google Play. If either one of them starts showing me ads, they're gone. It's not me I'm worried about at this point. It's my kids.

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Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook by Retric on Monday April 30, 2018 @06:16PM (#16962928)

Some are likely far over that threshold. However, I doubt everyone willing to pay 10$/month is worth more on average.

Facebook makes $7 per month per user in the US and Canada. So, it's likely fairly close though.

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Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook by lucb1e on Monday April 30, 2018 @06:45PM (#16963161)

But it doesn't matter if you lose money on those people. The $10/month easily carries all costs even if 0.1% of users pay and the rest gains them zero. (At least, back when I did the math in ~2015, when they were probably a bit smaller than they are now.)

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Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook by badestrand on Monday April 30, 2018 @07:24PM (#16963391)

Facebook alone makes $23 per user (from US/Canada) per month so it probably should rather be $50 than $10 per month.

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Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook by ucha on Monday April 30, 2018 @07:27PM (#16963408)

It's per quarter I think.

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