#WhatsApp #Founder Goes From Food Stamps to Messaging Billionaire He left Yahoo in 2007 with one of the company’s other engineers, Brian Acton, and started a company by 2009 that #shuns #advertising altogether. The strategy allowed them to concentrate on creating an easy-to-use messaging product instead of developing new ways to glean customer information for their marketing pitches, #Koum said in a 2012 blog post. &neo 2014-02-21 17:14:38 |