Whatsapp revenue model Jenish dhameliya Vishal kakadiya
WhatsApp Founder -- Americans Brian Acton and Jan koum ( also the CEO ) , Both former employees of Yahoo ! Headquarters – Mountain View, California Initial Release – 2009 Employees – 55 People Users – 450 Million People. More than 1 Million People Sign up For WhatsApp Every Day and it is on its way to connecting one Billion People. Type Of Site – Instant Messaging Website – www.whatsapp.com
Creating Wealth for The Nation Its free only for 1 year, just to make people get “used to it’’ and “become addicted” so that once the trial expires, people pay $0.99. Ways to create wealth-- Subscribers Selling data Royalties affiliation
Number of monthly active WhatsApp users worldwide from April 2013 to January 2017 (in millions)
Facebook & whatsapp deal Date =19 february ,2014. Acquirer company = facebook Inc. Acquiree company = WhatsApp Inc. Acquisition Amount = $ 19 billion. It includes $4 billion in cash , $ 12 billion worth of Facebook share $3 billion in restricted stock units Jan koum to join board of directors of Facebook.
Condition Whatsapp will be always AD free
Why F acebook Acquired WhatsApp TO Eliminate Competition To Use Their Technology To Improve Their AD System
SWOT ANALYSIS S trength S implicity Quality L eadership Weakness Network internet Opportunity Online service Threat Easy to copy High competition