One of the co-founders, Brian Acton, has funded most of Signal (~100M USD) in his post WhapsApp life. It is a very hacker mindset solution. Instead of turning to the law to enforce nebulous claims against a megacorp, make a better product with the money you got from said megacorp.

I know "nothing to hide" is never a strong argument but even if Signal is a CIA honeypot, if it keeps my personal conversations from becoming marketing fodder, sign me up!

I'm definitely not a "nothing to hide" guy, but if the CIA wants something on me they're going to find it in 5 minutes. They would only be using a backdoored Signal to get the smart guys; so I guess I have to thank the smart guys for the CIA giving us Signal...

well he took money under the promise and when FB broke the promise, he walked away and left $850M on the table. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/whatsapp-co-founder-walked-aw...

To punish Facebook for breaking their promise, he ... gave Facebook $850M (by not vesting all his equity) ?

Angry people can be irrational. That's my read.

I'll never understand why people don't place value on integrity. I mean day to day people and not stockholders. Zuck controls what happens at Meta, it's not a board decision on stuff like this unless Zuck tells them to do it.

> I’m taking some time off to do things outside of technology, such as collecting rare air-cooled Porsches.