Brian Acton
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Brian Acton
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Brian Acton is an American business executive and computer programmer serving as the executive chairperson of Signal Technology Foundation, which he co-founded with Moxie Marlinspike in 2018. Acton also serves as interim chief executive officer (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
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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:
2024-09-14T10:15:33Z
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