{"id":97,"date":"2018-02-12T05:16:41","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T23:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gosh.buzz\/?p=97"},"modified":"2018-09-28T10:01:22","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T04:31:22","slug":"whatsapp-founders-didnt-get-a-job-at-facebook-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/whatsapp-founders-didnt-get-a-job-at-facebook-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp Founders didn&#8217;t get a job at Facebook &#038; Twitter!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chances are you are in the group of 150 crore people who use WhatsApp daily! But very few people know that WhatsApp founders &#8216;<em>Jan Koum<\/em>&#8216; and &#8216;<em>Brian Acton<\/em>&#8216; were rejected for jobs at Facebook. <em>Brian<\/em> 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 -&#8216;<em>messaging<\/em>&#8216; and that is how the duo came up with WhatsApp &#8211; the most\u00a0simple, secure, and fast messaging app in the world!<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/260819\/number-of-monthly-active-whatsapp-users\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Statista<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brianacton\/status\/3109544383\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/the-story-of-grip\/5-things-every-founder-can-learn-from-the-story-of-whatsapp-b6496bc4f54d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Medium<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chances are you are in the group of 150 crore people who use WhatsApp daily! But very few people know that WhatsApp founders &#8216;Jan Koum&#8217; and &#8216;Brian Acton&#8217; 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 -&#8216;messaging&#8217; and that is how the duo came up with WhatsApp &#8211; the most\u00a0simple, secure, and fast messaging app in the world!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,13],"tags":[15],"thb-sponsors":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/WhatsApp-Founders-didnt-get-a-job-at-Facebook-Twitter-WinfiY-crunch.jpg?fit=500%2C333&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9V90w-1z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}