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Global SMS System

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the a16z Podcast

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Evans: WhatsApp processes 50% more messages than global SMS with 40 staff
“WhatsApp going to seven or eight hundred million users with a team of 30 or 40 people, and WhatsApp doing 50% more SMSs than the entire global telecom system, sort of 50% more messages than the entire global SMS system with 30 or 40 people”
Benedict Evans Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 24:44 a16z Podcast | The Rise of the Quasi-IPO
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Evans: WhatsApp rivals global SMS volume with only 30 engineers
“Even more dramatically, WhatsApp is doing almost as many messages a year as an entire global SMS system, and it's doing that with just 30 engineers.”
Benedict Evans Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 4:23 Mobile Is Eating the World, 2014

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