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Facebook Buys WhatsApp: The $19 Billion Bet on Owning the Global Messaging Layer

Facebook paid an unprecedented price for WhatsApp because mobile messaging threatened to become the primary social layer on smartphones. The deal looked extravagant in 2014, but WhatsApp became a core part of Meta's global product family.

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Sequoia Backs WhatsApp: The Venture Bet That Produced an Extraordinary Messaging Return

Sequoia backed WhatsApp before mobile messaging economics looked obvious. A small early venture bet gained exposure to a product that scaled with almost no marketing and was later acquired by Facebook for a transaction valued in the tens of billions.

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