Co-founder of WhatsApp and CEO Jan Koum is leaving the company in the midst of arguments with Facebook as regards data privacy and business model of the platform. Koum and his fellow co-founder Brian Acton sold WhatsApp to Facebook in 2014 for $19 billion according to our sources. The following is a post of Koum on Facebook declaring his intentions to leave the company. Although the post did not indicate any tumult within the inner circle, however, it is obvious Koum had an issue with the approach to data privacy. Mark Zuckerberg replied in a comment saying, “Jan: I will
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