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Re:How Discord Handles Two and Half Million Concurrent Voice... by zucan on Monday September 10, 2018 @05:09PM (#17955231)
Same thing as WhatsApp. VC pay most of the bills until the network effect has cultivated the userbase to a size attractive for a buy out by a bigger fish.
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Re:How Discord Handles Two and Half Million Concurrent Voice... by ontoillogical on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @01:19AM (#17957340)
WhatsApp was bringing in 10M in revenues[1] a year with the .99cent fee. Not selling it wouldn’t have made them billionaires, but it’s certainly fuck you money for a team of 8.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2016/02/01/whatsapp-hits-one-billion-...

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