Bill Gates: Microsoft would have bought WhatsApp too
Microsoft’s founder, Bill Gates, says that Facebook and Google weren’t the only companies interested in acquiring WhatsApp: Microsoft was also “willing” to buy the messaging app.
Facebook bought the five-year-old WhatsApp cross-platform text message replacement app, which sends messages via phones’ data connections rather than SMS, for $19bn in February. WhatsApp is Facebook’s biggest acquisition and showed the importance of the drive to mobile from the desktop for the social network.
WhatsApp rebuffed a $1bn offer from Google in April last year prior to the social network’s bid. Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg said that WhatsApp was on track to connect 1 billion people which is what made it valuable.
“Microsoft would have been willing to buy it, too. I don’t know for $19bn, but the company’s extremely valuable,” Gates, 58, told Rolling Stone in a wide-ranging interview covering technology, climate change and God.
I believe that if Bill Gates purchased whats app it would have financially benefited more , unfortunately he was too late to buy it. I think that if Bill Gates purchased whats app he could have added more of his creativity to the app, making it attract more people to download it thus making more money.
I believe that if Bill Gates purchased whats app it would have financially benefited more , unfortunately he was too late to buy it. I think that if Bill Gates purchased whats app he could have added more of his creativity to the app, making it attract more people to download it thus making more money.
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