Time spent on PR

Posted on 22/2/2014, 11:00 am, by Colin Charles, under Business.

How WhatsApp’s Arora Sealed Facebook Deal – Digits – WSJ: Time spent on PR is time not spent ‘making your users happy,’ Arora said. ‘The users you get from press and hype are not the best users.’

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