That's great but...what did he think was going to happen?
this post was submitted on 09 Sep 2025
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It was a more naive time
he could have done a lot more good with $850million
I don't know what that has to do with my question but there's no way that $850M can do more good than simply not selling the shit to Facebook. WhatsApp has become a global communication platform. Half the people on the fucking planet are using it on a regular basis.
i was agreeing that walking away wasn't the best way to handle it.
I wasn't talking about walking away, I was talking about getting in bed with them in the first place.
they bought whatsapp; he didn't have a choice.
...he owned WhatsApp. It was entirely his choice.
the ai summary led me to believe whatsapp was incorporated; it looks more like it was seller's remorse:
The past tense and wistfulness hang in the air. More than four years ago, Acton and his cofounder, Jan Koum, sold WhatsApp, which had relatively insignificant revenue, to Facebook for $22 billion, one of the most stunning acquisitions of the century. Ten months ago he left Facebook, saying he wanted to focus on a nonprofit. Then in March, as details of the Cambridge Analytica scandal oozed out, he sent a Tweet that quickly went viral and shocked his former employers, who had made him a billionaire many times over: “It is time. #deletefacebook.” No explanation followed. He hasn’t sent another Tweet since.
the ai summary
Well there's your problem.
it's a brand new feature i just got from firefox so i've been trying out and it clearly has some limitations since this is the 2nd time today.
All of them are subject to the same problems.