[rossriley]

WhatsApp for instance sold for $19 Billion and when it was acquired had an engineering team of just 35.

[jldugger]

And I think Instagram had like 12.

[djmips]

Says more about the complexity (or lack thereof) of the product than the capabilities of those 12.

[jldugger]

I mean, it was a mobile first app, with a substantial server component and infinite scroll, at a time where very few people were iOS experts.