WhatsApp is the largest messaging platform on the planet and is now owned by the company Facebook, but before it was co-founded by Brian Acton and Jan Koum, Facebook buying it a few years ago for 19 billion euros. WhatsApp has changed a lot since it was owned by Facebook, and the security of conversations is not a big point, so Acton, the co-founder of WhatsApp, invested 50 million dollars in the application Signal.
WhatsApp was launched before Signal, but the latter is the favorite application of the famous Edward Snowden, thanks to the security it offers for the conversations made by users. The 50 million dollars invested by the co-founder of WhatsApp in the Signal application will allow it to continue working, but to develop and offer new functions for the users who use it, this being the most important aspect.
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WhatsApp was left without Acton last year, and now the co-founder will donate his time and experience to grow the Signal application and turn it into a platform to be used by everyone who wants secure conversations. Acton has an estimated fortune of 6.6 billion dollars, the amount returned to him after Facebook bought WhatsApp from him and the other co-founder, and this money is now invested in competing platforms for Facebook's platform.
"We've always wanted to do much more, and our limitations have often been challenging. Over the lifetime of the project, there have only been an average of 2.3 full-time software developers, and the entire Signal team has never been more than 7 people. With three client platforms to develop, a service to build and run, a growing list of integrations to assist with, and millions of users to support, that has often left us wanting."
WhatsApp has changed for the worse since it was taken over by the Facebook company, and Acton's decision to leave was most likely related to the inappropriate changes imposed by the Americans for the platform. It is not known how WhatsApp will change in the future, but it is as clear as possible that now the co-founder of the platform will focus on something else and it is possible that the Signal application will become much more important in the coming years.
