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Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by downandout on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @05:30PM (#7266871)
I'm not sure I'd call the WhatsApp of today a startup.
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Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by rokhayakebe on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @06:20PM (#7267365)
Why not? ~50 employees, a couple of years old, $8M in funding.
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Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by MichaelGG on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @06:47PM (#7267536)
50 employees? That's awesome. Twitter has like over 2000. Sure, Twitter's infrastructure is more complicated, but still.
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Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by yla92 on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @07:33PM (#7267838)
From this blog post[0], "WhatsApp runs lean. With only 32 engineers" I am very impressed.

[0]: http://sequoiacapital.tumblr.com/post/77211282835/four-numbe...

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Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by downandout on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @09:27PM (#7268405)
They were just valued at $19 billion. Kind of not a startup.
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Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by jonknee on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @10:26PM (#7268643)
No, they were acquired for $19B. That's exactly a startup. They had a small amount of VC and the revenue to match, but sold for a king's ransom--the storybook version of a startup.
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Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by downandout on Thursday February 20, 2014 @12:46AM (#7269115)
Value = the amount that someone will pay for something. $19B in this case.
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Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by TheAlchemist on Thursday February 20, 2014 @05:24AM (#7270023)
That's not value, that's called 'price'
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Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by elasticrat on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @07:05PM (#7267676)
Whatsapp is 5 years old.
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