you wouldn't pay 2 billion for messaging app with few hundred millions of users that is without ads and doesn't make any money to be philanthropic about it, would you (or anybody else)
20 Billion. 2 Billion was what it was worth. Maybe.
22 billion
Well, they could've actually started charging for the service. $1 a year was more than reasonable for me.
I remember it said 1$ from next year onwards and first year was free. May if they weren't not bought out by FB that would have been their option and it would have been a better one. Not sure why any of the lead not start new clone and start charging