The founders of WhatsApp left Facebook due to disagreements with the management of the social network over the monetization of the messenger
In September last year, the co-founder of the Facebook-owned WhatsApp messenger, Brian Acton, left the social network, and in early May, the second co-founder of the messenger, Jan Koum, also left the company. As journalists from The Wall Street Journal found out, the reason for the departure of Acton and Koum was disagreements with Facebook management over the monetization of WhatsApp, and both of them lost hundreds of millions of dollars.