I'm impressed by Acton and Koum. They built a $22bn company, scaled to hundreds of millions of users, became the dominant chat app in the world... all with a tiny team of engineers. Before Facebook acquisition, they were laser-focused on quality and infrastructure instead of gimmicks.
Maybe they made a mistake by selling, but I wouldn't have turned down total financial freedom for me and my family forever.
Whatever. I'll switch to Signal, and watch out for the next thing that these guys work on.
No doubt, A small team can sometimes accomplish amazing things when they don’t have oversight. It’s too bad that the quality will probably stay stagnate.
Maybe they made a mistake by selling, but I wouldn't have turned down total financial freedom for me and my family forever.
Whatever. I'll switch to Signal, and watch out for the next thing that these guys work on.