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Whatsapp was recently acquired by Facebook for whooping $ 19 billion in stock and cash. This post aims to provide information about the founders of Whatsapp who are little known.

1. Brian Acton: - Co-Founder of Whatsapp

Brian Acton is the Co-founder of Whatsapp. Let us know bit about his past :

Education:

Stanford University, 1994,BS in Computer Science

University of Pennsylvania,1991 Degree is Economics & Computer Science

University of Central Florida,1988

Career highlights:

He started as a System Administrator in Rockwell International. then he got in Apple as  Hardware Test Engineer. He moved on to Adobe as QA Engineer for a small stint as he again moved to Apple as Software Engineer. In 1996, he was Vice President,Engineering at Yahoo!

Then he went to make Whatsapp and co-founded it.

2. Jan Koum - Co-founder and former CEO, Whatsapp

So, you spend lot of time on Facebook and you eventually start liking the amount of time you spend. Well, you can turn your addiction into career by working on various aspects in the field of social media. You must have heard lot of people nagging the time they spend on Facebook, Twitter and other similar social networking websites but its time to show them that you can even make a living out of it. We will divide the section into two parts: Technical and Non-technical.

1: Technical:

If you are from computer or information technology background and you look forward to make a career in Facebook as Software Engineer, well, Facebook provides a easy(it isn't) access to getting a phone interview. Facebook has lots of programming puzzles to solve and if you solve them, you are into Facebook with whooping packages and super career as well. So, if you are  a techie , turn your time on Facebook into superb career by solving puzzles on Facebook.

2. Non-technical:

• Involving in Marketing of various offline as well as online companies on Facebook/twitter and other websites. Making strategic plan to market their services or products on Facebook and in return you get bucks!


• Planning, Creation, Addition and Promotion of brand on Facebook, twitter is considered to be a service many SMEs are looking for. You can do this by maintaining their accounts via Facebook pages, profiles, tweets and other similar ways.


• Organizing events online via Facebook, Google Plus. You can start up video conferencing events on Google plus and in turn charge for such events organization.


• By studying the trends in these websites, you can become a Social Media Consultant for various companies as well as individuals, looking some benefit out of such websites.


• If you love designing, you can design companies/individual's logos, Facebook pages, Cover photos and campaign posters and earn from it too.


• You can start your own blog and promote it on these websites to get instant and good traffic to your websites and that too free!

So, by being a social media expert, you can turn around the tables and make your addiction, your career. You do not require any investment to start companies that offer such services mentioned above.

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