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		the_other on Oct 25, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers Facebook now have to maintain Messenger AND WhatsApp. And Insta also has chat. So I disagree that FB could have killed WA.

the_other on Oct 25, 2021 [–]

I’m tempted to go further. FB bought WA because it would have killed their ad business.

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