{"id":4098,"date":"2025-10-24T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/avnbmu.com.ua\/?p=4098"},"modified":"2025-10-29T18:07:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T16:07:17","slug":"from-job-rejection-to-a-19-billion-deal-why-timing-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avnbmu.com.ua\/en\/news\/from-job-rejection-to-a-19-billion-deal-why-timing-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"From \u201cJob Rejection\u201d to a $19 Billion Deal: Why Timing Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 2009, American programmer Brian Acton, together with his friend and business partner, Jan Koum \u2014 an American programmer of Ukrainian origin \u2014 applied for jobs at Facebook. Both were rejected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just a few months later, the two decided to create their own app \u2014 WhatsApp.<br>In 2014, Facebook purchased the app from them for an astonishing $19 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps it would have been cheaper for Facebook to hire them in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, WhatsApp, originally designed as an alternative to SMS, is used by over 3 billion people across more than 180 countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The app\u2019s name combines the casual English phrase \u201cWhat\u2019s up?\u201d and the word \u201cApp\u201d (application) &#8211; a clever play on words that became a global brand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Photo source: www.freepik.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2009, American programmer Brian Acton, together with his friend and business partner, Jan Koum \u2014 an American programmer of Ukrainian origin \u2014 applied for jobs at Facebook. Both were rejected. Just a few months later, the two decided to create their own app \u2014 WhatsApp.In 2014, Facebook purchased the app from them for an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avnbmu.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avnbmu.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avnbmu.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avnbmu.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avnbmu.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/avnbmu.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4100,"href":"https:\/\/avnbmu.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4098\/revisions\/4100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avnbmu.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avnbmu.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avnbmu.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avnbmu.com.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}