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Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook by untog on Monday April 30, 2018 @06:38PM (#16963109)
> 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)

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Re:Jan Koum to leave after broad clashes with Facebook by abhishekjha on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @01:43AM (#16964814)
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.
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