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Startup Bought for Data?

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Post by ksdk » Thu, Aug 01, 2019, 9:19 PM UTC

Can you come up with a startup acquisition that happened mainly because the acquirer wanted certain data?

Re: Startup Bought for Data?

Post by html5web » Thu, Aug 01, 2019, 10:07 PM UTC

Facebook acquired WhatsApp for user data, I believe.

Post by ksdk » Sat, Aug 03, 2019, 9:09 AM UTC

html5web wrote: post #2

Facebook acquired WhatsApp for user data, I believe.

Cool, thanks for your answer.