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mtgx on Oct 12, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: WhatsApp founder: I sold out, but I walked away fr...

He already did. He'd gotten a few billion dollars out of the acquisition by then. He invested $50 million of that into the Signal Foundation, and I would hope he will invest more in the future.

fipple on Oct 12, 2018 [–]

Even taking the $850m and setting it on fire is $850m that Facebook doesn’t have to buy the next Instagram.

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