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WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton to exit company

Acton co-founded WhatsApp with Jan Koum in 2009 and has been with the company for eight years.

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WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton to exit company
Brian Acton, co-founder of WhatsApp, speaks at the WSJD Live conference in Laguna Beach, California. Photo: Reuters
Written By: Reuters
Updated: Wed, Sep 13, 2017
08:40 am
Mumbai, Reuters
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Key highlights:
  • Brian Acton, co-founder of WhatsApp will leave the messaging service company to start a new foundation
  • Acton spent eight years with WhatsApp
  • Acton co-founded WhatsApp with Ukrainian immigrant Jan Koum in 2009

Brian Acton, co-founder of WhatsApp, now owned by Facebook Inc, will leave the messaging service company to start a new foundation, he said in a Facebook post on Tuesday.

Acton spent eight years with WhatsApp, which Facebook bought in 2014 for $19 billion in cash and stock.

A Stanford alumnus, Acton co-founded WhatsApp with Ukrainian immigrant Jan Koum in 2009. The duo worked at Yahoo before starting WhatsApp.

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