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In addition to the agreed price of $16B, Facebook added $3.6B to retain employees. WhatsApp had 55 employees at the time [0]. Near the end of the referenced article is an interesting comparison of different prices/employee for other acquisitions.

32 of the employees were engineers [1].

[0] https://theconversation.com/whatsapp-bought-for-19-billion-w...

[1] https://india.sequoiacap.com/article/four-numbers-that-expla...