In 2014 Facebook acquired the mobile messaging service WhatsApp for approximately 19 billion dollars in cash and stock, one of the largest acquisitions of a technology startup on record at the time. The deal extended Facebook's reach into markets where WhatsApp had already become the dominant messaging platform, and WhatsApp continued to operate as a largely separate service under Facebook's ownership in the years immediately after the deal.
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The Facebook 2014 acquisition of WhatsApp, structured as a mix of cash and stock reaching roughly 19 billion dollars, is a finance-practice case study in high-multiple technology acquisition valuation.
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On February 19, 2014, one year after the venture capital financing round at a $1.5 billion valuation, Facebook, Inc. (now Meta Platforms) agreed to acquire the company for US$19 billion, its largest acquisition to date.
1. Wikipedia, WhatsApp
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