Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook
by untog on Monday April 30, 2018 @06:38PM
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> They brought in something like 10M on 0.5B users, hardly sustainable.
Why not? Their team was tiny and they spent next to nothing on advertising (nor needed to). $10m seems like a pretty decent amount of money to be spending on servers in a year. (I'm not saying it definitely was fine, just that I wouldn't assume it wasn't)
Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook
by abhishekjha on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @01:43AM
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Curious. How much do servers cost for serving 1B+ users? Does it really consume millions of dollars if there is no ML/analytics being generated? I used to think that as you scale you start getting cheaper rates.
Was it? Sure, they had a lot of users, but most weren't paying. FB said that the revenue was so small that it wasn't even worth charging. They brought in something like 10M on 0.5B users, hardly sustainable.