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Darmody | karma 2328 | avg karma 2.77 · 2021-02-19 12:59:22

Not necessarily. Sometimes more users is better than higher revenue.

If those 200 million users have to choose between paying you $20/year or paying only $1 and joining a network with 1 billion users...they'll probably choose the later. Then you won't see those 4 billion dollars.

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ethbr0 | karma 17741 | avg karma 3.56 · 2021-02-19 19:49:07+00:00

It depends on the business.

If users cost $0.05 / user to support, that's very different than $1 / user.

Software products scale... but they don't scale completely free.

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Darmody | karma 2328 | avg karma 2.77 · 2021-02-19 15:26:54

Yes, of course, but we're talking about messaging apps like Whatsapp.

ethbr0 | karma 17741 | avg karma 3.56 · 2021-02-20 16:29:35+00:00

And in the 90s, that would have been bandwidth.

Now, widely used messaging platform also means content moderation team and local law enforcement alignment.

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