How Does WhatsApp Make Money? This mini-movie tells the story of WhatsApp, and the insane journey of Brian Acton & Jan Koum. Imagine this: you go for a job at Facebook and get rejected. A few years later, Facebook buy your company for $19 billion dollars. Well, for WhatsApp founders Brian and Jan, that’s exactly what happened. Unfortunately, for WhatsApp’s users, the story perhaps doesn’t have quite such a happy ending… The story of how WhatsApp was built and scaled is both fascinating and worrying.
You’re watching the full WhatsApp Documentary / Mini WhatsApp Movie from MagnatesMedia. In this episode, we ask ‘how do WhatsApp earn money?’, and look through the story of WhatsApp, and how they’ve monetized. This is part of our “Crazy But True: Business Stories That Feel Like Movies” series you can watch free on MagnatesMedia. The goal is to tell fascinating business stories, including more business origin stories like this one.
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“WhatsApp Woes” In the realm of chats and memes, Where emojis dance and GIFs gleam, Lies WhatsApp, a digital stream, A tale of fortune, or so it may seem. Brian and Jan, two daring souls, Rejected by Facebook’s lofty goals, They forged ahead, their dreams unrolled, Creating an app that would soon take its toll. Messages flew across the globe, From lovers sweet to bosses stern, But little did we truly know, The cost of convenience, the price we’d earn. For WhatsApp’s founders struck gold, A $19 billion jackpot, bold! Facebook swooped in, their story told, And wallets wept as privacy was sold. So here we are, our chats encrypted, Yet ads creep in, our peace disrupted, The journey wild, the twists unscripted, WhatsApp, oh WhatsApp, you’ve left us conflicted.
