Profil Financier
Brian Acton occupe actuellement le rang #1191 du classement mondial StarFortune (secteur technologie). Fortune nette estimée : $3.6 B ($0 sur 24h).
Computer engineer Brian Acton cofounded messaging app WhatsApp with Jan Koum in 2007; the two had met while working at Yahoo.
The pair sold WhatsApp to Facebook for $22 billion in cash and stock in 2014. Acton left WhatsApp at the end of 2017.
Acton received about $3 billion for his stake in WhatsApp. The mobile messaging app has over 3 billion users in 180 countries.
In 2018, he committed $50 million to Signal Foundation - the nonprofit behind the signal mobile app focused on preserving private communication.
Acton and wife, Tegan, have also founded three other philanthropic entities. In total, the couple holds over $1 billion in charitable vehicles.
Five years before Facebook bought WhatsApp, Acton had applied for a job at Facebook and was rejected.
Acton tweeted "#deletefacebook" in March 2018 in the wake of revelations that Facebook had enabled Cambridge Analytica to improperly handle data from users.