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Brian Acton
Brian Acton
American Businessman
Born: 1972
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Related authors: Bill Gates Henry Ford Jim Rohn Les Brown Peter Drucker Stephen Covey Steve Jobs Warren Buffett
You never want to be in a position where you can't make payroll. Brian Acton
You Never Make Where Want Payroll Position
For me specifically, it was important to graduate. In my family, I was one of the first graduates. My mom did not have a college degree. My dad did not have a college degree. Brian Acton
Mom Family Me Degree College First Important College Degree Did Graduate Graduates Dad Specifically
I think every acquisition is unique and different. The best strategy is to listen to the founders and follow their lead. Brian Acton
Best Strategy Every Think Follow Lead Listen Different Acquisition Unique Founders
Building secure products actually makes for a safer world; many people in law enforcement may not agree with that. Brian Acton
People World Law Building Secure Law Enforcement Safer Makes May Enforcement Products Many Agree Actually
Yes, I was a big math and computer geek, that's true. I was driven by the scholastic side of things. For me, it was all about what I could do with math and computers. Brian Acton
Me Big Side Geek About Could Computer Driven Computers Scholastic True Math Yes Things
My mom started an air-freight company; my grandmother built a golf course. I have a certain degree of entrepreneurial risk-taking in my family history. Maybe that eventually rubbed off on me a little bit. Brian Acton
Mom Family Me History Degree Bit Risk-Taking Entrepreneurial Course Built Off Family History Maybe Golf Golf Course Little Little Bit Grandmother Certain Certain Degree Company Eventually Started
Going public is 18-month process, while an acquisition is a 6-month process. Going public means going under so much scrutiny, regulatory approval, auditing, magnified 10 times. Having the stomach to do that isn't necessarily in my DNA. My DNA is building a product and a service. Brian Acton
Service Building Approval Having Magnified Times Stomach Going Process While Public Scrutiny Acquisition Much Means Product Regulatory Necessarily
There's a certain degree of speculation that goes into valuations. In so far as the market supports a valuation, everyone who gets a great one deserves it, but they should also be cautious because that speculation is temporary. I saw Yahoo go from $100 billion to $10 billion. It's not a long-term measure. Brian Acton
Great Degree Market Everyone Saw Temporary Great One Long-Term Supports Also Yahoo Because Go Cautious Goes Gets Far Certain Should Certain Degree Measure Billion Who Deserves Speculation
It's not 100 per cent clear to me what's working about Snapchat. Brian Acton
Me Per About Clear Snapchat Cent Working
Your insurance broker has your telephone number, but your insurance broker doesn't have your Facebook ID. I think they are very different modes of communication. Commingling them can come with risk and peril. Brian Acton
Facebook Communication Think Telephone Telephone Number Broker Risk ID Come Peril Insurance Very Different Them Modes Your Number
WhatsApp will bring Facebook another billion users. We will be a billion-user product. Whether there is a direct valuation or an indirect valuation, there is value, and Facebook understands that well. Brian Acton
Facebook Will Value Direct Indirect Well Another Understands WhatsApp Whether Product Billion Users Bring
In early 2010, we launched our first localized version of 'WhatsApp' for iPhone. It included Spanish and German language translations, to name a couple. Brian Acton
Language First Our Name Couple iPhone Version German WhatsApp Spanish Translations Included Early
FreeBSD has a nicely tuned network stack and extremely good reliability. Brian Acton
Good Extremely Reliability Network Stack Tuned Nicely
'WhatsApp' provides phone number-based messaging, and people asked, 'Isn't that what SMS is?' Yes, but SMS is expensive, antiquated, and what WhatsApp did was modernize and level that playing field. Brian Acton
People Phone Field Messaging Provides Yes Antiquated Did WhatsApp Expensive Asked Level Playing Playing Field
When I worked at Yahoo, I saw a lot of acquisitions. Some succeeded, and some failed. I think I have learned from that. Brian Acton
Think Saw Some Failed Learned Yahoo Lot Succeeded Worked Acquisitions

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