Most of you people will know that both Instagram and WhatsApp are popular apps now with Facebook. By purchasing Instagram and Whatsapp $ 23 billion, Mark Zuckerberg had bought Kevin Sistrom and Brian Acton. Today, Instagram has close to 1 billion active users. There are 150 million active users all over the world, but do you know about these two ‘magicians’ who make these two social media apps? You must be surprised to know that Kevin, who was the world’s largest photo-sharing app like Instagram, used to work as a DJ in the Clubs (disc jockey). Let’s know about Kevin Sistrom and Brian Acton who created WhatsApp and Instagram…
Kevin Sistrom was born on 30 December 1983 in Massachusetts, USA. Kevin is American computer programmer and entrepreneur. In the year 2016, he has also been included in the list of the 40th-richest entrepreneur of the United States. Kevin, along with his friend Mike Krieger, made the world’s largest photo sharing app instagram. Talking about Kevin’s family life, his father Douglas Sistrom used to serve as Vice President in an HR company. The company name was TJX. His mother’s Dena used to work in the first round of programming website, Master.com. Kevin’s father did not appear to have any desire about Kevin, but his mother wanted that the name be cheered in Kevin’s programming area.
Work of DJ during high school
In the course of high school, Kevin worked as a DJ in clubs and private parties. During high school studies, he prepared a program that used to prank with his friends. In fact, Kevin had prepared a messaging app, and it seemed that the account of the front had been hacked. In this way Kevin’s friends used to scare and Kevin enjoyed it. In the name of high school, he enrolled at Stanford University for the study of computer science, but he did not feel like here and later he got admission in Management Science and Engineering. In the meantime, he got a taste of photography and he made a photo sharing website.
Work done in companies like Google and BarBon
During this time he was selected for the Mayfield Fellowship Program and under this he got another 12 students to work in the research related website. The name of the company was Oody, which was prepared by Evan Williams. Today this company is known as Twitter. Let’s say that twitter CEO Jack Dorsi also used to work with Kevin. After studying university, Kevin served in companies like Google and Social Site BarBon. During working in Berbon, Kevin felt that Barban had more features that could disturb users. After that, he prepared the Instagram in 2010. Within 24 hours of making the app live, 25 thousand people downloaded it and the server crashed. Two years later, Kevin made an Instagram deal with Facebook for $ 1 billion, Even after this deal, Kevin still had 40 percent stake. Kevin married Nicole Shutz in 2015 and has a daughter, Freya.
Zuckerberg, who never gave a job, bought Bryan’s WhatsApp for Rs 1,580 billion
Today, when you get bothered by the WhatsApp being blocked for some time, in 2009, Brian Acton had teamed up with his friend Jane Koum. You would be surprised that Brian Acton and Jane Koeme used to work in Yahoo Brian was born on February 17, 1972, in the United States of Michigan. Acton’s early studies took place in Lake Howell High School in Florida. He received scholarships during his engineering studies in Pennsylvania, through Acton had left his studies in the middle. There was a time when he applied for a job on Facebook, but his selection was not done. Later, he made WhatsApp, which Facebook bought for 1,580 billion rupees. Even after the deal with Facebook, there were 22 percent shares after Acton. Brian Acton 2, 083 crores was donated to the Silicon Valley Computation Foundation, after which they were identified as the third largest donor in the world. Let us tell you that Brian Acton is connected to nearly a dozen societies whom he helps financially from time to time. In 2017, Brian left Facebook.
