Is WhatsApp disrupting the telecoms industry?

April 17, 2014

Is WhatsApp disrupting the telecoms industry?

64 billion messages processed per day - 20B sent and 44B received
465 million users on platform
1 million join platform every day
70 percent of users come back every day
$100 billion mobile communications industry being displaced
$18 billion -- Sony is worth less than WhatsApp
50X ROI - Sequoia made on WhatsApp deal
55 employees when sold to Facebook -- that's a price of $375 million per employee!

Dizzying statistics.

Competition that kills isn't pre-announced, it catches an unsuspecting incumbent by surprise.

It's one of the main reasons why the ROI of social collaboration in large enterprises is that you get to exist in 5 years' time. Too few executives really understand this.

17 Apr 2014 12:32:05 | Enterprise 2.0, SocialBusiness, SocialMedia

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