If Zuckerberg offered WhatsApp $8 Billion instead, would he have really been unable to close that deal? by Jason Lemkin | Exit, Exit Strategy, Other, Product, Q&A It looks like it. The deal was priced at 10% of Facebook’s value. Rational or irrational, that’s how it was calculated. See Questions On Quora View original question on quora Related Posts $3 Billion Is the New $1 Billion in SaaS Is Chris Sacca really worth $1.2 billion? My First Big Sales Deal. It Was For $6,000,000.