WhatsApp: 5 things Co-Founder Brian Acton said about the Facebook deal

Wednesday night, WhatsApp Co-Founder Brian Acton spoke at the StartX OpenX closing party in Palo Alto, giving some interesting information about his company’s acquisition by Facebook. It was Acton’s first public speaking appearance for WhatsApp, as the company has generally avoided media attention.

StartX, headquartered in Facebook’s former city, is a Stanford University-spun startup incubator. Acton was speaking to a group of a couple hundred Stanford students and grads, as well as other startup founders from around the Bay Area.

Here are some key points from his discussion at StartX:

The acquisition wasn’t totally about teens

Though many people rumored that Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp was a way to buy some teen users internationally, Acton doesn’t see it that way.

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