Re:WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers
by kosolam on Monday October 25, 2021 @04:08AM
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Exactly. Facebook bought WhatsApp’s users like cattle on auction. WhatsApp guys just needed the right price offer. Now with pseudo tech posts like the current they are trying to mask it’s public image behind some ancient tech innovation from it’s past…
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Re:WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers
by foepys on Monday October 25, 2021 @06:28AM
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WA Management was misled by Facebook about what FB wanted to do with WA. I agree that you'd have to pretty naive to believe FB but it's not like WA founders sold solely because of money.
Re:WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers
by lotsofpulp on Monday October 25, 2021 @08:09AM
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I think you would have to be pretty naive to think WA founders were above having a price at which they would sell solely for the money.
Re:WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers
by foepys on Monday October 25, 2021 @03:50PM
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WhatsApp founder Brian Acton left 850 million USD on the table when he left Facebook prematurely in protest of Facebook's lies about the vision they had for WhatsApp after its acquisition. After that he donated 50 million USD to the Signal foundation.