Didn't he have a job, for many years, at Yahoo, before starting WhatsApp? Didn't his co-founder also exit Yahoo with what most Americans would consider a crapload of cash? (an amount one would think of when one thinks of winning a lottery)?
I appreciate that he started WhatsApp from scratch but this picture that is being painted of him as some sort of homeless street person is rather warped, don't you think?
As if a former Yahoo technical engineer with a similarly qualified best buddy who has a crapload of cash, both of whom live in Silicon Valley, and have (I assume) plenty of other buddies in the industry, is somehow "starting from scratch from nothing".
The vast, vast majority of Americans should be so lucky to have the "nothing" that they had. Not to mention the rest of the earth's population.
The real truth isn't so much a story of "the poor getting rich" but really, "the rich getting super rich".
I appreciate that he started WhatsApp from scratch but this picture that is being painted of him as some sort of homeless street person is rather warped, don't you think?
As if a former Yahoo technical engineer with a similarly qualified best buddy who has a crapload of cash, both of whom live in Silicon Valley, and have (I assume) plenty of other buddies in the industry, is somehow "starting from scratch from nothing".
The vast, vast majority of Americans should be so lucky to have the "nothing" that they had. Not to mention the rest of the earth's population.
The real truth isn't so much a story of "the poor getting rich" but really, "the rich getting super rich".