REGRETS, THEY’VE HAD A FEW
Dustin Moskovitz
seems yogamaster content in his second act with Asana, but
Facebook is no stranger to disgruntled (albeit fabulously wealthy) ex-employees.
Consider cofounders Eduardo Saverin, who left amid a legal battle over
his stake, and Chris Hughes, who recently urged the U.S. government to break up the
social media giant. Then there’s Brian Acton, who
cofounded WhatsApp and sold it to Facebook
in 2014 for
$22 billion before walking out— and forfeiting $850 million in unvested stock grants—in 2017. He aired his gripes in Forbes’ October 31, 2018, issue, a few months after having posted
“It is time. #deletefacebook,” the tweet heard ’round the world.
“At the end of the day, I sold my company,” Acton told us. “I sold my users’ privacy to a larger benefit. I made a choice and a compromise. And I live with that
every day.”