WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton is leaving the company

WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton is planning to leave the company he helped create. Acton described his motivation to leave WhatsApp in a Facebook post Tuesday evening. Acton will officially leave the company in November and transition his responsibilities to other engineers at the company, a source familiar with the matter told VentureBeat.
“I’ve decided to start a nonprofit focused at the intersection of nonprofit, technology, and communications,” Acton wrote. “It’s