Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus $3B in RSUs

Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by nwh on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @05:38PM (#7266960)

I was using active users as a metric in my parent comment, using the same measure Facebook has 750M active users for a cost of $227USD per user.

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Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by sheetjs on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @05:40PM (#7266974)

That only strengthens my argument: market values at ~225 / active user

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Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by higherpurpose on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @06:13PM (#7267306)

And how many decades will Facebook need to make that money from its users? How many decades will it need to make it from Whatsapp?

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Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by alex_young on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @06:27PM (#7267406)

Facebook made $2.14 / user in Q4 2013 [0]. That means they need more than 26 years to return that value.

Or they need to find a way to increase revenue greatly without alienating users too much...

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Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by spiantino on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @06:29PM (#7267418)

1.2B is monthly active, 750 is daily active. FB doesn't publish just registered users.

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