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Re:Former Facebook, WhatsApp employees lead new push to fix ... by dvt on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @09:21PM (#31268207)
Not sure why you would be dishonest about this when it's easily verifiable to be false[1]. Even ignoring the meager revenues with 600M(!) users, WhatsApp had no way to realistically meet their equity obligations without a fat exit. And then, FB wanted to make their money back (duh).

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2014/10/28/whatsapp-revenue/

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