11 Amazing Facts about WhatsApp

  -->WhatsApp founded in 2009 by former Yahoo! employees Brian Acton and Jan Koum Sequoia Capital invested $8 million in 2011.

-->70% of users are active on a daily basis.WhatsApp says they are adding 1 million
users everyday.They currently employ 50 people.

-->32 engineers working on WhatsApp, i.e. one engineer is responsible for 14 million active
users!!

-->400 million active users in December Rising to 450 million active users according to Facebook’s press release The app is the 5th most downloaded app on Android.

-->WhatsApp doesn’t sell ads and zero have appeared on the app

-->Twitter and Facebook had the chance to hire founder Brian Acton but didn’t!

-->The total value of the deal: $19 Billion ($4 billion in cash, $12 billion in stock, and $3
billion in restricted stock) $1 Billion Break-up fee should the deal not go through.

-->Jan Koum keeps a note from Brian taped to his desk that reads “No Ads! No Games! No Gimmicks!” To keep them focused on building a pure messaging experience.

-->WhatsApp spent ZERO cash on marketing, PR and user acquisition

-->WhatsApp’s messaging volume is approaching the entire global telecom SMS volume

-->On Dec 31st 2013 users sent a total 54 billion messages during the day (3x
increase from 2012).

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