Google offers 4 Billion for snapchat.



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The next and wining offer will be 10. If they decline that they won't get bought and will be broke and outa business in <2 years
 
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Wouldn't be surprised if Google threw out that offer just because of how much they hate Facebook.
 
Just a play by Google to get some media attention.

If snapchat didn't take 3B (enough to buy the Dallas Mavericks, a kilo of coke a day forever, 10 Gulfstream 5s, the Trump Tower, with still more than half of the money left) they wouldn't take 4 either.
 
Make sense -

Option A, take two of our worst engineers, put them in a room for the weekend full of beer, titty mags, pizza and a PC in which time they'll still create a better product.

Then spend 100 mil promoting it and paying users to use it instead of the competition.

Option B, pay 4 billion.

Clearly option B.
 
AntiPop said:
Make sense -

Option A, take two of our worst engineers, put them in a room for the weekend full of beer, titty mags, pizza and a PC in which time they'll still create a better product.

Then spend 100 mil promoting it and paying users to use it instead of the competition.

Option B, pay 4 billion.

Clearly option B.
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Did that work with Wave, Buzz or Google+?
 
AntiPop said:
Make sense -

Option A, take two of our worst engineers, put them in a room for the weekend full of beer, titty mags, pizza and a PC in which time they'll still create a better product.

Then spend 100 mil promoting it and paying users to use it instead of the competition.

Option B, pay 4 billion.

Clearly option B.
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You clearly have a thorough understanding of business and psychology.

If you pay someone to use something, they'll treat it like work, and never use it for "fun". It's the same reason that if you start paying your kids to wash the dishes that they'll never again do it for free, when potentially they would have initially done it for free for other reasons, e.g. to, shock horror, help, and get some degree of satisfaction from it.

That's before we even get onto the issues of persuading an entire demographic to use another product which their friends don't use, that likely has no marginal utility benefit over the current solution.

It's the same reason tens of millions of facebook users aren't fleeing to Google+. The people that do use Google+ are just using it in addition to Facebook for different communication purposes. It's not several fold better than Facebook, like Facebook was in comparison to Myspace.
 
As far as I can see the only people who use Google+ are SEOs using it for authorship. That's all "I" use it for. ;)
 
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