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Why Do App Developers Still Live with Their Moms?

Harvard Business Review

They received acclaim and took meetings with heavyweights at industry conferences. Yet like most apps, WhatsApp is hardly unique as a product: Line, Kik Messenger, Viber, WeChat, and others do much the same thing. In this way, the industry parallels drug dealing. I’ve looked up every company that did an IPO in the U.S.