Can someone explain WhatsApp’s valuation to me?

danah boyd | apophenia 2014-02-21

Summary:

Unless you were off the internet yesterday, it’s old news that WhatsApp was purchased by Facebook for a gobsmacking $16B + $3B in employee payouts. And the founder got a board seat. I’ve been mulling over this since the news came out and I can’t get past my initial reaction: WTF? Messaging apps are *huge* […]

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http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2014/02/20/whatsapp-facebook.html

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Date tagged:

02/21/2014, 07:40

Date published:

02/20/2014, 08:50