Ummm, I've paid more for WhatsApp than I did for Signal. The money for signal ki...

mro_name · on Sept 28, 2021

lol, that sadly doesn't count then.

fastball · on Sept 29, 2021

What doesn't count?

mro_name · on Sept 30, 2021

paying whatsapp doesn't pay for the signal service.

fastball · on Oct 1, 2021

No, I paid for WhatsApp (as did millions of other people), which is part of the reason it sold to Facebook for ~20B.

Brian Acton then used that money to bankroll Signal, which unlike WhatsApp doesn't seem to have a clear path to profitability in the long term.