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Yes but the original founders did that. Zuckerberg took it from them and immediately lied about data sharing, there's a reason why the founders left in disgust

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Correction: The founders sold it to Zuckerberg for billions of dollars.

Saying he “took it from them” is outright dishonest.

They sold it under the condition he wouldn't lie, it was a condition for him to have it, and he lied

So why didn’t they take the billions of dollars he paid them and sue to have this “condition” upheld?

One of the co-founders, Brian Acton, has funded most of Signal (~100M USD) in his post WhapsApp life. It is a very hacker mindset solution. Instead of turning to the law to enforce nebulous claims against a megacorp, make a better product with the money you got from said megacorp.

Plot twist: Signal turns out to be a CIA honey-pot.

I know "nothing to hide" is never a strong argument but even if Signal is a CIA honeypot, if it keeps my personal conversations from becoming marketing fodder, sign me up!

I'm definitely not a "nothing to hide" guy, but if the CIA wants something on me they're going to find it in 5 minutes. They would only be using a backdoored Signal to get the smart guys; so I guess I have to thank the smart guys for the CIA giving us Signal...

well he took money under the promise and when FB broke the promise, he walked away and left $850M on the table. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/whatsapp-co-founder-walked-aw...

To punish Facebook for breaking their promise, he ... gave Facebook $850M (by not vesting all his equity) ?

Angry people can be irrational. That's my read.

I'll never understand why people don't place value on integrity. I mean day to day people and not stockholders. Zuck controls what happens at Meta, it's not a board decision on stuff like this unless Zuck tells them to do it.

> I’m taking some time off to do things outside of technology, such as collecting rare air-cooled Porsches.

It's not a condition if it's not in the contract or if it is and is not acted upon.

In either of those cases it's just lip service.

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