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Larry Ellison: “When WhatsApp sold for $19B, a lot of us were shocked… until we thought about it” In 2014, Mark Zuckerberg bought WhatsApp and their 450 million MAUs for $19 billion. “A lot of us [in Silicon Valley] were shocked — until we thought about it and understood the value of having access to that many consumers,” Oracle founder Larry Ellison says in this interview that took place a few months after the acquisition closed. Ellison points out that you have to take into consideration how much traditional businesses (e.g. cable TV companies) pay to acquire customers: “This is not the place to debate how much you can get through WhatsApp — $1 per year per customer is not going to do it — but I believe there will be opportunity to sell these same customers other things as they join your ecosystem.” He continues: “There was quite a battle between Facebook and Google over that property. It wasn’t that one guy did something really silly with a lot of money. Mark Zuckerberg won an auction over Google and paid a high price but got a very valuable asset in the 21st century.” As of 2025, WhatsApp has approximately 3.1 billion MAUs globally.

If you’re hunting for a remote job, you just need to figure out how Reddit works, and you’ll never be unemployed for a long time. Here’s a list of subreddits you should bookmark right now:

Hamza Lemssouguer is the fastest-growing new hedge-fund manager—the 35-year-old manages $20 billion at Arini Capital. He also owns 160 rare parrots. on.wsj.com/41O4dvW

@Wilshereinho @mozzie1up @BateHlacks @SelectaDonn @MusicConnoisseu what you said doesn't make any sense

@mozzie1up @BateHlacks @SelectaDonn @MusicConnoisseu I don’t know why you man are taking same way so literally, do you not use it when speaking? If we made plans to go 5 aside and I said “I was gonna drive down but my cars broken, I’m still gonna forward same way” Would you still expect to see me drive to 5 a side in my car?

If I heard “we will pattern, same way”, I would not take it as, we will do the deal in the same way. This is a miscommunication issue, because there was not enough clarification on the deal, they were dealing with bags as if it were pennies.

Japanese stocks are the last great deep value trade on earth. Rock solid balance sheets. Monster cash flows. Dirt cheap prices. I find them, trade them, and do it all over again. Follow for the best deep value plays in Japan nobody else is talking about.

The only way to get more money is to do illegal shit. Life n history taught me that. U just gotta know when to stop

@Rendani666 elaborate

The amount of fraud you gonna have is still doing push ups

Kevin O’Leary thinks the highest paying job right now is customer acquisition on social media “I used to pay those guys $48,000, now I’m paying them $250,000 because you can measure their work based on customer acquisition every week” “Most of them become contractors, they make half a million dollars a year because they know how to take content, turn it into a 59 second ad on social and acquire 200 customers” “Those people in their early 20’s are so valuable now. If you know how to use your phone, somebody wants to hire you”

Kevin O’Leary, who’s estimated to have a $400 Million net worth, got MAD at podcast hosts Graham & Jack after they suggested that there should be a wealth tax, explaining that people like Elon Musk deserve everything they get 😮👀 “You’re going to hell for saying that… It’s unamerican, it will destroy the fabric of the economy”

@enzostrange_ From R200

crying, so bro is a millionaire kanjalo nje😭🙏🏽

@ZongeziweL @Mb0ngz__ Dm

@Mb0ngz__ Same but I paid 6500 for both just yesterday I did nothing. This morning I woke up with a llicense

Daily reminder on how dumb PIF, Jared Kushner, Saudi Arabia, and US Private Equity Firms are… Today Saudi Arabia permanently cancelled its $40 billion SKI RESORT it was building, because its economy has been destroyed from Iran War. Yes. Saudi Arabia planned to diversify away from oil by building a $40 billion ski resort in a 120 degree desert. US private equity firms are lending to and helping this same group of investors buy EA Sports for $55 billion on $88 million profit in 2025. Even assuming 0% interest, that’s 625 years until break even 🤦 The stupidity of this country is beyond comprehension. $EA

Land investing + value add real estate = almost a sure bet of being a net worth multi millionaire in 5 years.

Andrew Yang reveals lobbying investments return 1700%🤯 “If I put $20,000,000 into lobbying Im going to get 17X”👀 $20,000,000 x 1700% = $340,000,000

@glockhokage @Clitortoise Check dms bros

@Clitortoise me when she starts getting undressed

I love niggas that look like they don’t know what to do with a piece of coochie what’s that about

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Money really makes you a better person. Took this babe out and bought her all the things she wants, and I've not felt this fulfilled in a really, really long time.

Nick Hudson (Private Equity Investor): Anglo American & Rothschild have captured SA. Let's look at energy. 1. Rothschild’s Martin Kingston chairs BUSA’s B4SA, managing government ties & the Resource Mobilisation Fund. 2. The Fund sends experts in energy modelling, tariffs, law & policy into Ramaphosa’s NECOM. 3. Rothschild advises Treasury on Eskom’s debt. 4. Rothschild guides Eskom’s restructuring & Transnet. 5. Rothschild represents creditors in Eskom’s debt, unbundling. 6. NUMSA says Rothschild controls Eskom & is driving costly renewables under a “climate crisis” agenda. 7. Cheap coal is abandoned, leaving SA indebted, energy‑starved & reliant on Anglo American, which is laughing all the way to the bank. 8. Govt is manipulated by foreign interests. This is not in the interest of people of any culture,creed or ethnicity

- oil stocks - degen don’t waste your life april & may, i would help some of you tho get the right information.

@glockhokage Yooo open dm rq

last day of 2025 💰