BRIAN ACTON (Executive Chairman of the Signal Technology Foundation, Co-Founded with Moxie Marlinspike)

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BRIAN ACTON 

(Executive Chairman of the Signal Technology Foundation, Co-Founded with Moxie Marlinspike)

 The road to success is paved with hard work, sacrifice and determination. Brian Acton’s hard work paid him off big time with a simple idea called Whatsapp. Born in the year 1972, Acton is more popular as the Co-founder of WhatsApp .His life was not very simple. The man who was once rejected by Facebook as an employee sold WhatsApp to Zuckerberg recently and also holds stakes in the company. Computer engineer Brian Acton cofounded messaging app WhatsApp with Jan Koum in 2007; the two had met while working at Yahoo.

 The pair sold WhatsApp to Facebook for $22 billion in cash and stock in 2014. Acton left WhatsApp at the end of 2017.Acton received about $3 billion for his stake in WhatsApp. The mobile messaging app has over 1 billion users in 180 countries. In Feb. 2018, he committed $50 million to Signal Foundation - the non-profit behind the signal mobile app focused on preserving private communication .Acton and wife, Tegan, have also founded three other generous entities. In total, the couple have put over $1 billion in charitable vehicles

 

 VARSHA MISTRY

F.Y.BSc.(IT)


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