
<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Matthew thank you for sharing this.<br><br><div><div style="color: rgb(163, 163, 163); font-family: Ubuntu-Regular; font-size: 16px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);">-- </div><div style="color: rgb(163, 163, 163); font-family: Ubuntu-Regular; font-size: 16px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"> Jason Hellenthal</div><div style="color: rgb(163, 163, 163); font-family: Ubuntu-Regular; font-size: 16px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"> Voice: <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.235294);">95.30.17.6/616</span></div></div><div style="color: rgb(163, 163, 163); font-family: Ubuntu-Regular; font-size: 16px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"> JJH48-ARIN</div></div><div><br>On Feb 19, 2014, at 23:27, Matthew Story <<a href="mailto:matthewstory@gmail.com">matthewstory@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">Many of you have probably already seen this, but WhatsApp was acquired by Facebook for $16,000,000,000 + $3,000,000,000 more in RSUs for current employees.<div><br></div><div>This past summer the WhatsApp CEO (former Yahoo!) gave a testimonial to the FreeBSD Foundation, with a link to a blog post boasting that with FreeBSD they are capable of handling 2 - 3 million concurrent requests on a single server.</div>

<div><br></div><div>Links below:<br><div><br></div><div><a href="http://blog.whatsapp.com/index.php/2012/01/1-million-is-so-2011/" target="_blank">http://blog.whatsapp.com/index.php/2012/01/1-million-is-so-2011/</a></div>

<div><a href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/2013Jul-newsletter#whatsapp" target="_blank">https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/2013Jul-newsletter#whatsapp</a></div><div><a href="http://sequoiacapital.tumblr.com/post/77211282835/four-numbers-that-explain-why-facebook-acquired" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://sequoiacapital.tumblr.com/post/77211282835/four-numbers-that-explain-why-facebook-acquired</a><div class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br>regards,<br>matt

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