WhatsApp said the company is still on an equal footing with FB

Tencent Technology News June 6 news, was in the 90s of last century Stanford University, the United States chat developer WhatsApp co-founder Brian Actonr recently accepted a Stanford alumni non-profit incubator StartX's invitation to conduct his first "ever public lecture", and after receiving a number of media interviews.

Day, Hatton wearing a baseball cap, wearing a company T-shirt. During the interview, Exton first talked about the issue of company independence after WhatsApp was bought by Facebook for $ 19 billion.

It is learned that Exketon posted a note saying "No Ads, No Games, No Gimmicks" (no ads, no games, no tricks) in the company's meeting room and said that WhatsApp's philosophy did not happen Variety. Exton revealed that maintaining the usability of the WhatsApp platform is the company's foremost principle. So, a year and a half ago when he wrote these few words on paper, it was not a whirlwind, but he decided to go on this road.

In the meantime, Exton's life goals are also very similar to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, hoping to connect people all over the world and get them better connected.

In fact, when Facebook announced its acquisition of WhatsApp in February of this year, many industry privacy experts expressed concern about Facebook's access to the privacy of WhatsApp users. In response, Acton described the company's relationship with Facebook as "independent but equal." However, neither did Exxon give more information about the exchange of information between the two platforms, but merely said: "We do not really have much data except for phone numbers, and the company's employees do not collect user information, Not to mention all content is encrypted, so people do not need to worry about it. "

When it comes to how WhatsApp, with 450 million users, should further develop this issue, Exkonte said that she and Jan Koum, another co-founder of WhatsApp, have carefully examined how people in different regions communicate, Style, and get a lot of useful information.

For example, although WhatsApp had been paying for it for a long time, they used the free mode in the Indian market mainly because Indian users are not accustomed to online payment or credit card payment. In the Middle East, however, people communicate information to a group mainly through broadcast.

"In India, online payments are not completely accepted and understood, and people there are beginning to learn to use it, and people do not usually have credit cards, so cash transactions still take up a large share," says Exton.

In the meantime, Exton also said that if WhatsApp is more focused on the Taiwanese and Japanese markets, the company will be fully capable of achieving a larger user base.

Acton said: "I think we can bring greater revenue for Facebook, and this business profit model will not be based on advertising to achieve." However, Acton nor the so-called "commercial profit model Give further explanation.

It is important to point out that Acton had worked for Yahoo for 11 years earlier. By the end of 2007, he withdrew Yahoo from Jane Coombs, then Yahoo's employee. Then he traveled to Antarctica and Argentina and spent some time in New York. In 2009, Exton and Coom teamed up to launch WhatsApp. Exton revealed that he made such a decision because of his trust in Qom.

About a decade ago, once Exxon was in urgent need of someone to send him to the airport, Kommer immediately put down everything at hand to help him and successfully helped him catch the plane in time. At the same time, it also made Qom Win Exton's trust.

When answering audience questions later, one of the audiences asked him "how did the boss feel?" In response, Acton replied: "I do not think employees need to work 80 hours a week and they need to care about their own families And can tell others that they are working in a startup. "

Actually, after the meeting, Acton did not stop there anymore. He said he was hurrying home to take care of his newborn son. What's more, he feels a lot more enjoyable than Facebook's $ 19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp. (Tom)