After starting out as a hub of meaningful conversations, WhatsApp has now devolved into a digital billboard filled with spam messages and unnecessary features.
Sure but he’s also now just in the world of “so much money I’m having trouble spending it.”
But don’t feel too sorry for him, as he has already sold around $8 billion worth of his Facebook stock since 2015, helping him amass a fortune of over $10 billion, according to Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index.
“I’m taking some time off to do things I enjoy outside of technology, such as collecting rare air-cooled Porsches.”
While I fully support his decision to leave, I doubt the $1bn in Facebook shares was a massive concern. It took him 4 years to leave after the acquisition.
Because Facebook bought it. The founder of WhatsApp famously left an absolute fuckton of money - as in, roughly a billion US dollars - on the table because he was so infuriated by how quickly they started to bastardize his creation.
Facebook is remarkably talented at turning great products into absolute trash, bottom of the barrel stuff.
“Koum’s co-founder Brian Acton also recently left Facebook, and last month joined the campaign to delete the social network in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/deletefacebook-or-not-deletefacebook-not-question
Sure but he’s also now just in the world of “so much money I’m having trouble spending it.”
While I fully support his decision to leave, I doubt the $1bn in Facebook shares was a massive concern. It took him 4 years to leave after the acquisition.
And used some of the money he did get to start Signal