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Brian Acton

Co-founder of WhatsApp and the Signal Foundation · Born 1972

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American programmer who co-founded WhatsApp with Jan Koum in 2009 after leaving Yahoo. He left Facebook in 2017 and co-founded the Signal Foundation with Moxie Marlinspike in 2018, becoming its executive chairman. Born in Michigan.

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