Chances are you are in the group of 150 crore people who use WhatsApp daily! But very few people know that WhatsApp founders ‘Jan Koum’ and ‘Brian Acton’ were rejected for jobs at Facebook. Brian was rejected at Twitter too. After failure to get a job at Facebook and Twitter, the duo friends decided to build an app free of advertisement with focus on its core functionality -‘messaging’ and that is how the duo came up with WhatsApp – the most simple, secure, and fast messaging app in the world!
In 1983, Apple Founder Steve Jobs hired the then Pepsi executive John Sculley to join Apple as CEO convincing him by his famous statement “Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water, or do you want a chance to change the world?”. Later on, while Sculley was working as CEO, he & Steve got some issues over Mac Pricing. So, Steve was thrown out of Apple after which he founded NeXT that was later acquired by Apple which opened the door for Steve coming back to Apple and transforming Apple to a great company which we all know today. Well done Steve!