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

Post by smackfu » Wed, Feb 19, 2014, 10:23 PM UTC

dandroid17 wrote: post #65

napoleond wrote: post #47

How many active users does WhatsApp have? I'm trying to put this in perspective with the Instagram purchase and the Snapchat offer... finding it very difficult to understand the math behind this acquisition, although it is obviously linked to the recent plays with Messenger.

400 million http://blog.whatsapp.com/index.php/2013/12/400-million-stori...

Post by chrislloyd » Wed, Feb 19, 2014, 10:24 PM UTC

falsestprophet wrote: post #15

Some interesting numbers: WhatsApp raised only $8 million (from Sequoia in 2011 http://www.crunchbase.com/company/whatsapp ). 19B sale price is about 10% of Facebook's 173B valuation. At 400 million, WhatsApp has more users than, the world's third most populous country , the United States has residents.

Post by psbp » Wed, Feb 19, 2014, 10:24 PM UTC

nwh wrote: post #60

400,000,000 active users [0] 16,000,000,000 USD ---- $40 per user That's an incredible cost. We can assume Facebook is paying for the userbase, the app itself and it's infrastructure would basically run itself. It's less appealing when you realise that there's probably a miniscule fraction of WhatsApp users that don't have a Facebook account. > WhatsApp will remain autonomous and operate independently. You can contin…

Post by tomkarlo » Wed, Feb 19, 2014, 10:24 PM UTC

Post by peteridah » Wed, Feb 19, 2014, 10:24 PM UTC