WhatsApp Cofounder on How It Reached 1.3B Users Without Losing Its Focus
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#2Which is cool in itself.
What is deeply regrettable is the fact that they ended up selling to Facebook and thereby contributing to Facebook's aggressive and relentless mass surveillance system.
Re: WhatsApp Cofounder on How It Reached 1.3B Users Without Losing Its Focus
#3It's super easy to focus on a single metric (user growth) when you have a seemingly unlimited amount of capital and have no immediate pressure to turn _any_ revenue/profit. This article does a massive disservice to those who are not as fortunate who will inevitably be lead into failure.
Note, this should not discredit the more interesting and glorified aspects of WhatsApp (strong leadership, technical aptitude, tech stack, etc).
Re: WhatsApp Cofounder on How It Reached 1.3B Users Without Losing Its Focus
#4The messaging app no one uses in Asia?
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#5The messaging app no one uses in Asia?
Are you serious? Everyone and their grandma in India uses WhatsApp. It's so pervasive that it's almost like the only means of communication for people with smartphone and internet access.
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#6It's super easy to focus on a single metric (user growth) when you have a seemingly unlimited amount of capital and have no immediate pressure to turn _any_ revenue/profit. This article does a massive disservice to those who are not as fortunate who will inevitably be lead into failure. Note, this should not discredit the more interesting and glorified aspects of WhatsApp (strong leadership, technical aptitude, tech…
> seemingly unlimited amount of capital
Did they burn through lots of money?
> no immediate pressure to turn _any_ revenue/profit
Didn't some people pay for it?
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#7Why do we adhere to the assumption that number of users is the ultimate metric of software success?
I would like to hear from devs who aren't interested in expanding for the sake of expanding, who still consider their apps to be very successful.
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#8It's super easy to focus on a single metric (user growth) when you have a seemingly unlimited amount of capital and have no immediate pressure to turn _any_ revenue/profit. This article does a massive disservice to those who are not as fortunate who will inevitably be lead into failure. Note, this should not discredit the more interesting and glorified aspects of WhatsApp (strong leadership, technical aptitude, tech…
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Re: WhatsApp Cofounder on How It Reached 1.3B Users Without Losing Its Focus
#9It's super easy to focus on a single metric (user growth) when you have a seemingly unlimited amount of capital and have no immediate pressure to turn _any_ revenue/profit. This article does a massive disservice to those who are not as fortunate who will inevitably be lead into failure. Note, this should not discredit the more interesting and glorified aspects of WhatsApp (strong leadership, technical aptitude, tech…
> seemingly unlimited amount of capital Did they burn through lots of money? > no immediate pressure to turn _any_ revenue/profit Didn't some people pay for it?
They lost something close to $138MM the year before Facebook purchased them.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/dealbook/2014/10/28/faceboo...
Re: WhatsApp Cofounder on How It Reached 1.3B Users Without Losing Its Focus
#10The messaging app no one uses in Asia?
Are you serious? Everyone and their grandma in India uses WhatsApp. It's so pervasive that it's almost like the only means of communication for people with smartphone and internet access.
I guess he meant wechat/qq,kakao and line that are dominant in other countries. Whatsapp is impressive though.