Four years ago, Brian Acton was looking for a job.
His job at Yahoo, where he’d filled many engineering roles over 11 years, had come to an end.
He was networking with recruiters:
https://twitter.com/brianacton/status/1861771542
He met with Twitter. Twitter said no:
https://twitter.com/brianacton/status/1895942068
He met with Facebook. Facebook said no:
https://twitter.com/brianacton/status/3109544383
So he and Jan Koum, a colleague from Yahoo, set out to do their own thing.
Today, they sold that thing to Facebook for 19 billion dollars.
Life is crazy.
