Are you getting disappointed with your failures? You won’t be worrying about failures after knowing inspiring life of Brian Acton.
Brian Acton is the Co-Founder of WhatsApp, a cross-platform mobile messaging company.
In the summer of 2009 Facebook turned down Brian Acton for a job. He met Facebook after getting rejected from other companies like Twitter.
Brian Acton had sent this tweet after failing to get job with Facebook.
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
So he and Jan Koum, a colleague from Yahoo, decided to do their own thing. They started the mobile messaging application company WhatsApp and they sold it for $16 Billion in 2014 to the same Facebook which rejected him to take as employee just 5 Years back.
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