Brian Acton Tells Students to Delete Their FB Profiles

WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton defended his decision to sell his company to Facebook for $19 billion and encouraged students to delete their accounts from the social network in a rare public appearance at Stanford University on Wednesday. As one of the guest speakers for Computer Science 181, an undergraduate class focused on technology companies’ social impact and ethical responsibilities, Acton, a 47-year-old Stanford alum, explained the principles behind founding WhatsApp and his fateful decision to sell it to Facebook in 2014. In the piece, Acton described how Facebook had set goals for WhatsApp to hit a revenue run rate of $10 billion within five years of monetizing by pushing ads and offering businesses ways to directly communicate with users.

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