How does Whatsapp make money if it’s free and there are no ads?
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It might not.
WhatsApp is owned by Facebook. It prevents an instant-messaging based social network from springing up to challenge Facebook’s dominance.
WhatsApp is also incredibly cheap to run. At the time of its acquisition, WhatsApp employed just 35 engineers to support 450 million users.
Despite the $19 billion original purchase price, it provides a cheap way to guard the flank of what was Facebook’s monopoly.
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