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Brian Acton

WhatsApp / Signal
Menlo Park, United States
Brian Acton co-founded WhatsApp with Jan Koum and sold it to Facebook for $19 billion, famously having been rejected by both Facebook and Twitter before that. After leaving Facebook over data privacy disputes, he donated $50 million to found the Signal Foundation, enabling the Signal encrypted messaging app to operate as a non-profit. His tweet "It is time. #deletefacebook" sparked a global campaign and solidified his status as a privacy advocate.
Messaging / Privacy Tech

About WhatsApp / Signal

Signal is an end-to-end encrypted messaging and voice call application operated by the non-profit Signal Foundation. Regarded as the gold standard for private communications globally.

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