Exclusive: WhatsApp Cofounder Brian Acton Gives The Inside Story On #DeleteFacebook

ronjor · Sep 26, 2018

Parmy Olson Forbes Staff Sep 26, 2018

Under pressure from Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg to monetize WhatsApp, he pushed back as Facebook questioned the encryption he'd helped build and laid the groundwork to show targeted ads and facilitate commercial messaging.
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ronjor · Sep 26, 2018

Don't weep for the founders who took Zuckerberg's money

By Chris Matyszczyk for Technically Incorrect | September 26, 2018
The creators of WhatsApp and Instagram are held up as heroes once they leave the Facebook fold. Heroes? Or calculators?
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ronjor · Sep 26, 2018

The other side of the story

David Marcus·Wednesday, September 26, 2018
[Disclaimer: no one at Facebook asked me to post this. I just had to do it. And these are my personal views exclusively.]
Today Forbes published an interview of Brian Acton that contained statements, and recollection of events that differ greatly from the reality I witnessed first-hand. As a result, I felt compelled to write about the actual facts
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