from Hacker News

You know what’s cool? Turning down twenty billion dollars

by flying_whale on 9/27/18, 8:31 PM with 6 comments

  • by beamatronic on 9/28/18, 3:15 AM

    “The bastion of hope that was WhatsApp is gone.“

    There’s no technical barrier to building the same thing from scratch....

  • by mesozoic on 9/28/18, 1:23 AM

    Dude knew what would happen when he took the billions of dollars. Pretty much everyone who's forced to work in the rat race will take the deal. It's so stupid for rich people to speculate on what entrepreneurs who are scraping by should do ethically.
  • by Jyaif on 9/27/18, 10:49 PM

    Brian Acton turned down way more than this guy ever made, so I say he is already pretty cool.