Brian Acton is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. He co-founded WhatsApp, a mobile messaging application which was acquired by Facebook in February 2014 for US$19 billion. He is the 836th-richest person in the world, with a net worth of USD 2.5 billion.
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Brian Acton is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. He co-founded WhatsApp, a mobile messaging application which was acquired by Facebook in February 2014 for US$19 billion. Acton left WhatsApp in September 2017 to start the Signal Foundation. He is the 836th-richest person in the world, with a net worth of USD 2.5 billion. He and his wife Tegan Acton have three charitable foundations: Sunlight Giving, Acton Family Giving and Solidarity Giving. In February 2018, it was announced that Acton was investing USD 50 million into Signal.
On March 20, 2018, he publicly tweeted support for the #DeleteFacebook movement, in a \”new level of public backlash\”. In November 2019, he said he felt that it was time to make his feelings public because there was pressure unfolding against Facebook. He was turned down for employment by both Twitter and Facebook in 2009. In 2014, he led a funding round for Trak N Tell and raised USD 3.5 million.
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