Re:WhatsApp co-founder accuses Facebook of trading privacy f...
by imgabe on Saturday March 16, 2019 @03:52AM
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It mentioned in the article that it wasn't solely his choice to sell. Turning down a $16 billion exit is not something you could easily justify to investors and he probably would have been sued if he had.
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Re:WhatsApp co-founder accuses Facebook of trading privacy f...
by bamboozled on Saturday March 16, 2019 @03:59AM
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Also he probably realised that eventually Facebook would just clone what he’d built and then he would have absolutely no say in how things are done, it’s just to easy too criticise.