Never-give-up story: How Facebook turned down WhatsApp CEO for a job in 2009
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Facebook bought WhatsApp $19 billion today. The very successful WhatsApp, a cross-platform mobile messaging app which allows users to exchange messages without having to pay for SMS has 32 engineers on staff and 450 million active users.
Behind the success of this amazing platform (WhatsApp) is a never known story. The CEO of WhatsApp shared on his Twitter has he was rejected a job offer in 2009 by Facebook. In his own words;
Here’s a tweet by Acton from August 2009:
Facebook turned me down. It was a great opportunity to connect with some fantastic people. Looking forward to life’s next adventure.
— Brian Acton (@brianacton) August 3, 2009
Here’s another from May 2009:
Got denied by Twitter HQ. That’s ok. Would have been a long commute.
— Brian Acton (@brianacton) May 23, 2009
That’s not all, as just a few months earlier he was also rejected by Twitter.
Believe in your dream and never give up.
Author: Nana Kwesi Coomson (www.233times.net)
ABOUT: Nana Kwesi Coomson
[email protected] An Entrepreneur, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Communications Executive and Philanthropist. Editor-in-Chief of www.233times.com. A Senior Journalist with Ghanaian Chronicle Newspaper. An alumnus of Adisadel College where he read General Arts. His first degree is in Bachelor of Arts - Political Science (major) and History (minor) from the University of Ghana. He holds MSc in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Energy with Public Relations (PR) from the Robert Gordon University in the United Kingdom. He is a 2018 Mandela Washington Fellow who studied at Clark Atlanta University in USA on the Business and Entrepreneurship track.
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