After Facebook bought WhatsApp for $19 billion, the two founders of WhatsApp immediately started clashing with Facebook's management and Mark Zuckerberg.
WhatsApp's founders differed with the Facebook CEO not just on business models, but also about smaller stuff like office amenities and furniture. Not kidding.
Whatsapp founders Brian Acton and Jan Koum
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According to a new Wall Street Journal report,?WhatsApp founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton had a strenuous relationship with both Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg, pretty much since the moment Facebook acquired the insanely popular messaging app in 2014.
Facebook, who many consider as the king of digital advertising platforms, wanted to cash in on the WhatsApp deal by trying to monetize the messaging app -- something the WhatsApp founders obviously didn't like or endorse, since WhatsApp was conceived as a 100% free no-ads service.
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Not just that, according to the WSJ report, the WhatsApp founders also weren't happy about the office they shifted to after Facebook moved the WhatsApp team into their Menlo Park campus.
Apparently the WhatsApp founders had issues with their office amenities, asking for nicer bathrooms and swankier office desks. Jan Koum even complained straight to Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives over things as chairs Facebook wanted WhatsApp to purchase, claims the WSJ report.
With these revelations, it's not surprising that both WhatsApp founders -- Brian Acton and Jan Koum -- have since moved on from their roles at WhatsApp, walking away billions of dollars over continued disputes with the Facebook leadership.