VKontakte is six times cheaper than WhatsApp

One of the largest Russian social networks is not worth much: a little more expensive than the developers of Oculus Rift and much cheaper than WhatsApp.

At least, you can talk about it if you start from the amount you paid Mail.ru Thanks to media magnate Ivan Tavrin (CEO of Megafon and the UTV media holding, in 2011 Tavrin took 350th place in the top Russian billionaires) for 12% of VKontakte. According to Vedomosti, Mail.ru The Group paid $345 million for the share. So it turns out that the entire company was valued by the parties at $2.9 billion. Recall that Oculus VR was acquired for $2 billion

It's funny, but Tavrin himself acquired a share quite recently. In January, he bought it from Pavel Durov for an unknown amount.

A source: http://www.vedomosti.ru

VKontakte is one of the largest social networks in Russia. It was launched in October 2006 as a network for students. Today, it has more than 250 million registered users.