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I grew up in Ukraine where the phone line was tapped by the KGB. Privacy is not a feature for me. It is a fundamental right.
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We had 55 employees when Facebook bought us for 19 billion dollars. That is 345 million per employee. Keep your teams small.
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I applied to work at Facebook. They said no. I applied to Twitter. They said no. Best rejections of my life.
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No ads. No games. No gimmicks. WhatsApp was built on one principle: respect the user. Everything else followed.
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I pinned my Facebook rejection letter to the door of WhatsApp the day we signed the acquisition deal.
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We came to America with nothing. We lived on food stamps. This country gave me everything. The least I could do was build something useful.