WhatsApp crossed 1Billion downloads on Android with 4 engineers (and 1 guy overseeing it), in their own words they're 4.25 people vs 1Bn+ android users.
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- Just 4.25 People made 1Billion Downloads on Android.
- Have you ever wondered why WHATSAPP WEB always needs your phone to be connected to internet? Because Whatsapp doesn't at all keep your messages and contacts. Its all in your phone. They have no backup or storage of your messages, statuses, pictures and contacts. Thats why, the only way to use Whatsapp Web is to transfer messages and contacts from your phone to web.
- In 2009, WhatsApp co-founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton, both applied for jobs at Facebook and Twitter and were rejected.
- In February 2014, Facebook acquired WhatsApp for a whopping $19 billion, making both of them billionaires.
- In April 2014, WhatsApp tweeted that it hit a new record for messages. Within 24 hours, people using the app sent 20 billion messages and received 44 billion messages.