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WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton to leave company

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September 13, 2017

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WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton to leave company

Brian Acton, co-founder of WhatsApp, now owned by Facebook Inc (FB.O), will leave the messaging service company to start a new foundation, he said in a Facebook posto, Media reports on Wednesday.

Acton spent eight years with WhatsApp, which Facebook bought in 2014 for $19 billion in cash and stock.

A Stanford alumnus, Acton co-founded WhatsApp with Ukrainian nimmigrant Jan Koum in 2009.

The duo worked at Yahoo before starting WhatsApp.

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