Brian Acton
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Brian Acton
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Brian Acton is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur who serves as the executive chairman of the Signal Technology Foundation, which he co-founded with Moxie Marlinspike in 2018. Acton also serves as interim CEO of Signal Messenger LLC. He was formerly employed at Yahoo!. In 2009, Jan Koum and Acton co-founded WhatsApp, a mobile messaging application which was acquired by Facebook in February 2014 for US$19 billion. Acton left WhatsApp in September 2017 to start the Signal Fo
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American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur, co-founder of WhatsApp
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Acton
date created:
2014-02-20T10:28:30Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T22:29:10Z
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