Life is Crazy – Never Take Failures as Final – Story of WhatsApp Founder
Almost four years ago, Brian Acton, the co-founder of #WhatsApp was looking for a job. His job at Yahoo, where he’d filled many engineering roles over 11 years, had come to an end.
He was networking with recruiters:
networking with recruiters, venture capitalists, playing ultimate frisbee
— Brian Acton (@brianacton) May 20, 2009
He attended interview at Twitter. Twitter rejected his application:
Got denied by Twitter HQ. That’s ok. Would have been a long commute.
— Brian Acton (@brianacton) May 23, 2009
Two months later he was rejected by facebook:
Facebook turned me down. It was a great opportunity to connect with some fantastic people. Looking forward to life’s next adventure. — Brian Acton (@brianacton) August 3, 2009
So he and Jan Koum, a colleague from Yahoo, set out to do their own thing, now known as #WhatsApp. His last tweet (13 Jan 2012) from his twitter account was –
whatsapp — Brian Acton (@brianacton) January 13, 2012
Today, they sold WhatsApp to Facebook for 19 billion dollars.
Isn’t Life crazy?
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