Whatsapp was recently acquired by Facebook for whooping $ 19 billion in stock and cash. This post aims to provide information about the founders of Whatsapp who are little known.
1. Brian Acton: - Co-Founder of Whatsapp
Brian Acton is the Co-founder of Whatsapp. Let us know bit about his past :
Education:
Stanford University, 1994,BS in Computer Science
University of Pennsylvania,1991 Degree is Economics & Computer Science
University of Central Florida,1988
Career highlights:
He started as a System Administrator in Rockwell International. then he got in Apple as Hardware Test Engineer. He moved on to Adobe as QA Engineer for a small stint as he again moved to Apple as Software Engineer. In 1996, he was Vice President,Engineering at Yahoo!
Then he went to make Whatsapp and co-founded it.
2. Jan Koum - Co-founder and former CEO, Whatsapp
Jan Koum is the Co-founder and was CEO of Whatsapp.
Education background:
San Jose State University, BS Degree in Computer science.
Career highlights:
He went on to pursue infrastructure engineering at Yahoo! later on founding Whatsapp. After acquisition, he is now board member of Facebook.
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