Top 5 Reasons Behind Facebook’s Purchase of WhatsApp

No. 3: Fixing mistakes of the past

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 About 5 years ago, a guy named Brian Acton decided to send in his resume to Facebook. Like probably thousands of other resumes, his was also rejected. Don’t realize why we’re talking about this Brian fellow? Well, Acton just happens to be one of WhatsApp’s co-founders. He might not have caught Facebook’s interest back in 2009, but he surely did now. Nobody can say for sure how Acton would have helped Facebook had the company recognized his potential from the get-go, but one thing is certain: the social media mogul wouldn’t have ended up paying $19 billion for an app created by a man they turned down.