Sure. But did they truly believe all those "assurances" about how they could keep the original WhatsApp values indefinitely while getting acquired for an obscene amount of money?
Exactly this. This isn’t delusion or naivety. This guy was smart enough to build an app and gather together 500 million people on it.
With $20million per year in revenue, that means it would take over 700 years for Facebook to break even.
Any idiot would know that Facebook would change things up to profit from all those users and he knew it too. He just wanted to grab the money (understandstable) but now pretend like he had no clue (not understandable)
Definitely in great doses (or maybe not; see nolite's comment). And I don't think it would be far-fetched to say they were willingly blind (by greed) to future repercussions.
And now suddenly "wake up", after RSUs / stocks have vested, and cry foul: "Clashes over privacy...Values..."
To call it 'disingenuous' is putting it a bit too mildly.
Sorry if I'm too cynical on that; somehow I can't just seem to bring myself to assume good spirit in this case.
