Now Facebook's Everson tells WhatsApp founders what's up
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Carolyn Everson doesn’t seem impressed with privacy martyrs Jan Koum and Brian Acton, the WhatsApp co-founders who sold their creation to Facebook in 2014 but have lately become highly critical of their benefactor.
“Brian and Jan sold the company for a lot of money, $19 billion,” Everson said during an Advertising Week talk on Monday. “They both did very well,” she said. “I would love to hear them talk more about their philanthropy.”
Everson was responding to a recent Forbes article in which Acton lamented selling out WhatsApp’s users for Facebook riches. WhatsApp, which now has 1.5 billion monthly users, was built as a free service. Its founders have always hated advertising, and they claim Facebook promised not to move too quickly to squeeze revenue from their messaging users.
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