Facebook buys WhatsApp

guinnessaddick

SELR_addicks said:

Remember that only 25% is paid in actual money.

75% of the sum is in Facebook stock.

So well, when can he sell his shares?

Addicted

The shares vest over 4 years iirc

Huskaris

kentaddick said:

Huskaris said:

This is possibly the most ridiculous valuation of anything ever.

Here is what is going to happen. Facebook will ruin or commercialise whatsapp.

Someone will come up with another version, which is basically whatsapp but without Zuckerberg's shite all over it.

Facebook then buy this new messaging service.

Repeat ad infinitum.

people said the same of instagram, which facebook bought for $1 billion but is still going strong. Whatsapp has been going longer and nearly everyone has it on their smartphones

I could buy charlton for $40 billion and get it into the premiership and keep it "going strong" it doesn't make it a good valuation.