WhatsApp co-founder and CEO Jan Koum has announced plans to leave the company, saying he will take time off to focus on personal non-tech things. The announcement comes one day ahead of the F8 developers conference and follows a string of privacy-related controversies growing at parent company Facebook. READ: WhatsApp<\/b>
\nWhatsApp co-founder and CEO Jan Koum has announced plans to leave the company, saying he will take time off to focus on personal non-tech things. The announcement comes one day ahead of the F8 developers conference and follows a string of privacy-related controversies growing at parent company Facebook.
READ: WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton calls for deleting Facebook
In late March, the other WhatsApp co-founder, Brian Acton, published a tweet featuring the tag #deletefacebook. Acton isn\u2019t involved with WhatsApp anymore, having left it in November to later join Signal Foundation.
Koum, however, remained to serve as WhatsApp\u2019s CEO, a role he will be stepping down from, according to a post he published on Facebook.
The post, below, doesn\u2019t express any problems with Facebook or betray any issues that may be taking place behind closed doors. Koum doesn\u2019t reveal any future career ambitions, either, instead saying he\u2019ll focus on relaxing for a while:
Immediately following the post, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a comment thinly disguised as praise that mostly drives home the company\u2019s apparent role in helping decentralize power. The comment reads:
Despite Koum\u2019s chummy tone, sources speaking to WaPo claim he\u2019s leaving the company due to \u201cclashing\u201d with Facebook. Koum reportedly takes issue with the company\u2019s attempts to \u201cweaken [WhatsApp\u2019s] encryption\u201d and \u201cuse its personal data.\u201d
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