{"id":1040269,"date":"2026-10-02T07:52:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T02:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1040269"},"modified":"2026-10-02T08:02:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T02:32:17","slug":"sequoia-put-60-million-into-whatsapp-before-its-boom-years-later-facebook-agreed-to-buy-the-messaging-app-for-19-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/02\/sequoia-put-60-million-into-whatsapp-before-its-boom-years-later-facebook-agreed-to-buy-the-messaging-app-for-19-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Sequoia put $60 million into WhatsApp before its boom. Years later, Facebook agreed to buy the messaging app for $19 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sequoia Capital made an early investment in WhatsApp, putting about $60 million into the messaging company across several funding rounds. Years later, Facebook agreed to acquire WhatsApp for $19 billion, creating a major return for the venture capital firm. <\/p>\n<p>TechCrunch reported on Feb. 19, 2014, that Sequoia\u2019s stake could be worth about $3 billion following the deal, based on the assumption that the firm owned almost 20% of WhatsApp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sequoia Capital made an early investment in WhatsApp, putting about $60 million into the messaging company across several funding rounds. Years later, Facebook agreed to acquire WhatsApp for $19 billion, creating a major return for the venture capital firm. TechCrunch reported on Feb. 19, 2014, that Sequoia\u2019s stake could be worth about $3 billion following the deal, based on the assumption that the firm owned almost 20% of WhatsApp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040298,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040269\/revisions\/1040298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}