How does WhatsApp make money?

19/08/2025 10 min Episodio 65
How does WhatsApp make money?

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Episode Synopsis

WhatsApp is perhaps the only messaging app in the world that is free and does not display ads when you use it. When Facebook acquired WhatsApp for $19 billion, everybody thought WhatsApp would now start having ads. But it remained independent and had no ads. Even today, WhatsApp does not have any intrusive ads. It has a brilliant way of making money.
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