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Unnecessary knowledge
The short message giant WhatsApp was recently sold to Facebook. What incredible amount Mark Zuckerberg was worth and why, you will find out here.
Since its founding in 2009, WhatsApp has become the most popular application for smartphones. Just five years after inventor Jan Koum invented the idea, WhatsApp counts 450 million users around the world and sells for a whopping $ 19 billion.
So far so good. But did you already know these facts about WhatsApp?
Jan Koum, co-founder of WhatsApp is friends with Mark Zuckerberg.
Facebook has paid about $ 42 for each WhatsApp user.
The purchase price of WhatsApp was as high as the annual budget of NASA.
45 countries are therefore worth less than WhatsApp . These include Malta, Iceland and Syria.
Both Twitter and Facebook had the chance to hire WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton. Both rejected him.
WhatsApp has not invested a penny in advertising until this day.
WhatsApp has 2.5 times as many users as Twitter.
In the past nine months, about one million new WhatsApp users were added per day.
On New Year's Eve 2013, 54 billion messages were sent via the app.
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