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Tab

(11,093 posts) Wed Jul 2, 2014, 05:07 AM Jul 2014

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$19 billion for WhatsApp. $3 billion for Beats by Dre

What am I missing here? How does these companies value out? I can kinda understand Beats, but WhatsApp? Who are these financiers, and who do I talk to? And that other company with 10 people they paid mega-billions for?

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$19 billion for WhatsApp. $3 billion for Beats by Dre (Original Post) Tab Jul 2014 OP

I don't understand parents buying headphones for their Ilsa Jul 2014 #1

In the case of WhatsApp I think it's about getting rid of competition. n/t Dawgs Jul 2014 #2

whatever people are willing to pay... Blue_Tires Jul 2014 #3

Ilsa

(61,687 posts)

1. I don't understand parents buying headphones for their

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Wed Jul 2, 2014, 05:13 AM

Jul 2014

Their twelve year old that cost roughly a child's monthly food expenditure.

Dawgs

(14,755 posts)

2. In the case of WhatsApp I think it's about getting rid of competition. n/t

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Wed Jul 2, 2014, 08:51 AM

Jul 2014

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)

3. whatever people are willing to pay...

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Wed Jul 2, 2014, 10:51 AM

Jul 2014

Hell, even the goddamned LA Clippers went for $2B

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