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    Brian Acton co-founded WhatsApp, a mobile messaging application, with Jan Koum. Facebook acquired WhatsApp for $19 billion in 2014. Acton was formerly employed at Yahoo and had a degree in computer science from Stanford University. He left WhatsApp in September 2017.

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    Brian Acton co-founded WhatsApp, a mobile messaging application, with Jan Koum. Facebook acquired WhatsApp for $19 billion in 2014. Acton was formerly employed at Yahoo and had a degree in computer science from Stanford University. He left WhatsApp in September 2017.

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    Brian Acton (born February 17, 1972) is an American computer programmer and Internet

    entrepreneur. He is the co-founder (with Jan Koum) of WhatsApp,[2] a mobile


    messaging application which was acquired by Facebook Inc. in February 2014 for US$19 billion. He
    was formerly employed at Yahoo Inc. According to CNBC report , In September 2017, Acton left the
    messaging service company.[3]

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    1Education and early career


    2Yahoo
    3WhatsApp
    4References
    5External links

    Education and early career[edit]


    Acton, born in Michigan, grew up in Central Florida,[4] where he graduated from Lake Howell High
    School. He later graduated from Stanford University in 1994 with a degree in computer science.[5] In
    1992, he became a systems administrator for Rockwell

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