Re:WhatsApp Cofounder Brian Acton on Why He Left $850M Behind
by robszumski on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @05:13PM
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Negotiating that clause in there in the first place is extremely customer/user friendly and I can't believe they were able to do it. I have never heard of this before, especially for such a high profile acquisition...to a known ad company.
Re:WhatsApp Cofounder Brian Acton on Why He Left $850M Behind
by jjeaff on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @02:40PM
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I think at some point you could honestly make the decision that you can do a lot more good with $3B than guarding the privacy of the relatively well off from Facebook's ad machine.
there was an anti-monetization clause in the contract. you don’t put that there out of an over abundance of caution. they knew exactly FB’s intentions. they maybe didn’t expect it to come home to roost so quickly, but they should have. again, these are smart guys. they just couldn’t get past the billions, plain and simple.