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My question is, how is it $40 when the app itself is free and doesn't get the $40 from the user?
How will Facebook monetize it?
The moment they track users or show ads won't people leave and a new Whatsapp emerges?
Please help me understand how MAU without pay from user's wallet works because porn sites have a lot of MAU and they are not getting bought out, and they are free and offer value to the users as well.
As big as thing thing is, it's possibly headed to 1 billion users. I'm assuming that's about as massive as anything which exists right now. It's one big platform among very few that are operating at that level.
I just don't think there is any comparison. Money doesn't matter. You make big plays. If Zuckerberg were thinking small when he built Facebook, it would be a small e-commerce store selling T-shirts or something.
http://aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com/2014/02/facebook-buys-wh...
You might say they don't have enough lock-in, that someone else could come along and take their business. True, but I don't think that changes the value of this space in general. People always say that startups focus too much on problems that young white males tend to have, well here's something that's as generally useful as you can get.
I read a comment that said people run their entire businesses on it, and that in many places there is a 90% chance that someone you're talking to has WhatsApp on their phone. Sounds pretty valuable to me. It's a communication platform, what's more valuable than communication. You might say they don't have enough lock-in, that someone else could come along and take their business. True, but I don't think that changes…
Nobody has answered the OP's question: why $18B? why not $18M or $523M?
I don't know if this is how the amount of an offer is determined but it sounds plausible to me.