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WhatsApp Has Surpassed 100 Million Monthly Active Users in the US
“WhatsApp has a hundred million now in the US, which this is sort of a big narrative violation that WhatsApp will never catch on in the US, and iMessage is dominant, and even after that it's, you know, text message. This is crazy. A hundred million people a mon…”
Ben Gilbert Oct 28, 2024 ▶ 5:25:39 Meta (Audio) · Acquired
Assertion Partly supported
WhatsApp founders met while working on Yahoo's ill-fated Project Panama
“This was the ill-fated Project Panama at Yahoo, which, by the way, acquired Easter Egg. That is where Jan Coom and Ryan Acton met at Yahoo, and then they would get so frustrated and leave and start WhatsApp.”
David Rosenthal Jun 30, 2025 ▶ 3:26:09 Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
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