Words matter. These are the best Brian Acton Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
In early 2010, we launched our first localized version of ‘WhatsApp’ for iPhone. It included Spanish and German language translations, to name a couple.
When I joined ‘WhatsApp,’ I was 38 years old. Opportunity is available to us in all walks of life and at all ages.
I think every acquisition is unique and different. The best strategy is to listen to the founders and follow their lead.
People want chat histories. They’re a permanent testimony of a relationship.
Going public is 18-month process, while an acquisition is a 6-month process. Going public means going under so much scrutiny, regulatory approval, auditing, magnified 10 times. Having the stomach to do that isn’t necessarily in my DNA. My DNA is building a product and a service.
It’s not 100 per cent clear to me what’s working about Snapchat.
For me specifically, it was important to graduate. In my family, I was one of the first graduates. My mom did not have a college degree. My dad did not have a college degree.
Your insurance broker has your telephone number, but your insurance broker doesn’t have your Facebook ID. I think they are very different modes of communication. Commingling them can come with risk and peril.
There’s a certain degree of speculation that goes into valuations. In so far as the market supports a valuation, everyone who gets a great one deserves it, but they should also be cautious because that speculation is temporary. I saw Yahoo go from $100 billion to $10 billion. It’s not a long-term measure.
Yes, I was a big math and computer geek, that’s true. I was driven by the scholastic side of things. For me, it was all about what I could do with math and computers.
Dealing with ads is depressing. You don’t make anyone’s life better by making advertisements work better.
I myself saw Yahoo become a $100 billion company and then become a $10 billion company, so you always have to look at valuations with a grain of salt and understand it is a point-in-time measure.
FreeBSD has a nicely tuned network stack and extremely good reliability.
You have a certain identity that you present to the world on Facebook, and you have a certain identity that you present with the telephone, and they are different.
Building secure products actually makes for a safer world; many people in law enforcement may not agree with that.
