Chris Best was working at his desk late in the afternoon on Feb. 19 of last year when he saw the news: Facebook had agreed to buy WhatsApp for $19 billion. With a B.
"Holy shit that's a big number," Best, cofounder and CTO of Kik, a messaging startup based in Canada, recalls thinking at that moment. "I remember there just being a general atmosphere of disbelief and excitement. It got sent around [the office] by e-mail. People were like, 'Whoa!'"
A few thousand miles away in San Francisco, Jim Patterson's initial reaction bordered on disbelief"That's gotta be a typo," says Patterson, founder of CoTap, which some dubbed a WhatsApp for enterprise. "Did someone add a digit?" On the East Coast, Brooks Buffington, busy working on his new anonymous sharing startup Yik Yak, simply thought, "That sounds exorbitant." Read more...
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