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by bane on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @01:17PM
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For fun, WhatsApp was acquired for what, $16b? With 400m users? Or $40 per user.
Even if the user base continued to grow to 1/7th of all humans on the planet, that's still $16 per user. Over 5 years that's about $3.2 per user per year. Can they monetize that much?
Their fee is $1/year with the first year free. So assuming a billion people use it, it would take 17 years to get their money back in gross revenue terms. Who knows how long in net revenue.
FB has a little over a billion users, and makes about $6 per user per year in gross revenue with tons of advertising.
Even if the user base continued to grow to 1/7th of all humans on the planet, that's still $16 per user. Over 5 years that's about $3.2 per user per year. Can they monetize that much?
Their fee is $1/year with the first year free. So assuming a billion people use it, it would take 17 years to get their money back in gross revenue terms. Who knows how long in net revenue.
FB has a little over a billion users, and makes about $6 per user per year in gross revenue with tons of advertising.
Is WhatApp overvalued? A little.