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		Lammy on March 3, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a f... If FB Messenger beat Whatsapp they wouldn’t have had to buy it.

notyourday on March 3, 2020 [–]

Facebook bought Whatsapp for the social graph, not the messenger technology

Lammy on March 3, 2020 | [–]

Yes, exactly. The social graph they couldn’t acquire organically by having the better product.

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