Didn't have clout to say no: WhatsApp Co-founder on $19bn FB deal

While talking about WhatsApp's $19-billion acquisition by Facebook in 2014, WhatsApp Co-founder Brian Acton said, "I didn’t have the full clout to say no if I wanted to". "I had 50 employees, and I had to think about them and the money they would make from the sale," he added. The Stanford University alumnus had left Facebook in 2017.