Za Munthu Yemwe Anakhala Zosangalatsa M'moyo - Brian Acton

"Amayi adatsegula kampani yonyamula ndege, agogo anga adamanga bwalo la gofu. Mabizinesi ndikuyika pachiwopsezo zili m'magazi mwanga, "adatero poyankhulana ndi atolankhani. Mpaka pano, chiopsezo chomwe adatenga chapindula kwambiri. Ndipo mwina sananenebe mawu omaliza.

1. Chithunzi cha Acton kuchokera masiku ake ophunzira

Brian wachinyamata adakhala ali mwana komanso unyamata wake ku Michigan komwe adamaliza maphunziro ake ku Lake Howell High School kenako sayansi yamakompyuta kuchokera ku yunivesite ya Stanford ku 1994. Izi zisanachitike, adaphunziranso ku University of Central Florida ndi University of Pennsylvania (1).

Amayi ake, omwe anali ndi kampani yolemera yonyamula katundu, analimbikitsa mwana wawo wamwamuna kuyamba bizinesi yakeyake. Komabe, iyi idakhalabe mu 1992. Woyang'anira System ku Rockwell International, kenako anagwira ntchito choyesa ku Apple Inc. ndi machitidwe a Adobe. Mu 1996, kukhala wogwira ntchito makumi anayi ndi anayi, adalembedwa ndi Yahoo!.

Mu 1997 anakumana Iye ndi Amulungu, bwenzi lake lakale lomwe pambuyo pake linasamuka ku Ukraine. Anamupangitsa kuti alowe mu Yahoo! monga mainjiniya wa zomangamanga ndipo adasiya ku San Jose State University. Onse awiri adagwira ntchito limodzi pakampaniyo kwa zaka khumi, kuthana ndi zovuta zosiyanasiyana za IT.

Pamene kuphulika kwa intaneti kunayamba mu 2000, Acton, yemwe poyamba anali ndi ndalama zambiri pa dot-com, anataya mamiliyoni. Mu September 2007, Koum ndi Acton anaganiza zochoka ku Yahoo! Anayenda mozungulira South America kwa chaka chimodzi ndipo amathera nthawi yawo mosangalala. Mu Januware 2009, Kum adagula yekha iPhone. Potengera mabizinesi ang'onoang'ono awa, adazindikira kuti App Store yomwe idangoyamba kumene inali ndi kuthekera kwakukulu ndipo posachedwa idzakwaniritsidwa. makampani atsopano ogwiritsira ntchito mafoni.

Kutsatira malingaliro awa, Acton ndi Koum adabwera ndi pulogalamu ya Mauthenga. Iwo adaganiza kuti dzina la WhatsApp lingakhale labwino kwambiri pantchito yawo yolumikizana chifukwa limamveka ngati funso lachingerezi. Nchiyani chikuchitika? ("Muli bwanji?").

Panthawiyo, panalinso nkhani yomwe nthawi zambiri imaperekedwa ngati phunziro lachidziwitso kwa oyambitsa achinyamata ndi amalonda. Mu 2009, Acton ndi Koum adadzipereka kugwira ntchito pa Facebook koma adakanidwa. Monga ambiri omwe adakhumudwitsidwa, Brian adagwiritsa ntchito Twitter kuwonetsa kukhumudwa kwake.

“Facebook idandikana. Unali mwayi waukulu kukumana ndi anthu odabwitsa. Ndikuyembekezera ulendo wina m'moyo wanga, "adatero tweet (2).

2. Ma tweet okhumudwa a Acton atakanidwa ndi Facebook

Pamene awiriwa adagwirizana kuti agulitse WhatsApp yawo ku Facebook patatha zaka zisanu ndi $ 19 biliyoni, ambiri adanena monyoza kuti mu 2009 akanatha kuzipeza zonsezo pang'onopang'ono ...

Zvezda App Store

Omwe amapanga WhatsApp ayang'ana mwatsopano kulumikizana pakati pa mafoni a m'manja. Kusunga zinsinsi kunali kofunika kwambiri kwa iwo.

Utumiki wawo sunasinthe kwambiri kuyambira 2009, kupatula zowonjezera zazing'ono m'matembenuzidwe atsopano. Chifukwa chake, wogwiritsa ntchito sayenera kupereka chidziwitso chokhudza iye mwini, monga dzina loyamba ndi lomaliza, jenda, adilesi kapena zaka - nambala yafoni yokha ndiyokwanira. Ngakhale dzina la akaunti silifunikira—aliyense amalowa ndi nambala ya manambala khumi.

Ntchitoyi idatchuka mwachangu ku Europe ndi makontinenti ena. Kale kumayambiriro kwa 2011, WhatsApp inali nyenyezi yeniyeni ya App Store, ikugonjetsa malo okhazikika pa mapulogalamu khumi aulere.

Mu Marichi 2015, pogwiritsa ntchito kupangidwa kwa Acton ndi Koum (3), ca. 50 biliyoni mauthenga - akatswiri ngakhale anayamba kulosera kuti WhatsApp, pamodzi ndi mapulogalamu ofanana, posachedwapa kuchititsa kutha kwa SMS chikhalidwe monga Skype, amene anasintha nkhope ya telephony mayiko (akuti kukula mofulumira ntchito kwachititsa imfa ya oyendetsa telecom. nthawi zambiri). mabiliyoni a madola).

Komabe, pofika nthawi yomwe zotsatira zochititsa chidwizi zidakwaniritsidwa, mtunduwo sunalinso wa Acton ndi Koum. Kugulitsa kwake ku Facebook mu 2014 kunapangitsa Brian ndalama zambiri. Forbes akuyerekeza kuti anali ndi magawo opitilira 20% amakampani, zomwe zimamupatsa ndalama zokwana pafupifupi $3,8 biliyoni. Pagulu la Forbes Forbes, Acton tsopano ndi m'modzi mwa anthu XNUMX olemera kwambiri padziko lapansi.

Zazinsinsi Choyamba

Protagonist walembali adachoka pa WhatsApp mu Seputembara 2017. Pa Marichi 20, 2018, Forbes adanenanso kuti Acton adathandizira pagulu "kuchotsa Facebook". “Nthawi yafika. #deletefacebook, "akutero kulowa kwake pa ... Facebook. Mawu oterowo adayankhulidwa kwambiri ndikufalitsidwa pa malo ochezera a pa Intaneti pamene chiwonongeko chinayambika chifukwa cha kuwululidwa kwa deta ya ogwiritsa ntchito ndi portal yodziwika bwino ya Cambridge Analytica.

Pakadali pano, Brian wakhala akuchita nawo ntchito yatsopano kwa miyezi ingapo - Signal Foundationamene adatsalira pulezidenti ndi zimene ankathandiza ndi ndalama. Ali ndi udindo wopanga ndi kusamalira pulogalamu ya Signal, yomwe ndi yofunika kuteteza chinsinsi. Acton amagwira ntchito limodzi ndi omwe amapanga pulogalamuyi. Ndalama zokwana madola 50 miliyoni zomwe adazipangira yekha pantchitoyi siziyenera kubwezeredwa kwa iye, monga akutsimikizira mwalamulo. Maziko ndi bungwe lopanda phindu, lomwe lakhala likugogomezedwa mobwerezabwereza ndi pulezidenti wake m'mawu ambiri a anthu.

"Pamene anthu akuchulukirachulukira amakhala pa intaneti, chitetezo chazidziwitso ndi zinsinsi ndizofunikira," tsamba la Signal Foundation likutero. “(…) Aliyense ayenera kutetezedwa. Tinapanga maziko athu poyankha chosoŵa chapadziko lonse chimenechi. Tikufuna kuyambitsa njira yatsopano yopangira ukadaulo wosagwiritsa ntchito phindu yomwe imayang'ana kwambiri zachinsinsi komanso kuteteza deta kwa aliyense, kulikonse. ”

Thandizo la mabanja

Palibe zambiri zokhudzana ndi moyo wa Acton komanso zochitika zina zamabizinesi kupatula WhatsApp. Iye sali m'gulu la akatswiri odziwika bwino atolankhani a Silicon Valley.

Wophunzira ku Stanford amadziwika kuti ali ndi chidwi chofuna ndalama komanso kuchita zachifundo. WhatsApp italandidwa ndi Facebook, idasamutsa magawo pafupifupi $290 miliyoni kuchoka pagawo lake kupita ku. Silicon Valley Community Foundationzomwe zidamuthandiza kupanga zithandizo zitatu.

Anayamba ntchito yake yothandiza anthu Dzuwayomwe adayambitsa mu 2014 ndi mkazi wake Tegan. Bungweli limathandizira mabanja omwe ali ndi ndalama zochepa omwe ali ndi ana osakwana zaka zisanu, akupanga ntchito zokhudzana ndi chitetezo cha chakudya, kupeza nyumba ndi chithandizo chamankhwala. Kuchokera kuzinthu zake, ndalama zochulukirapo zimasamutsidwa kuti zithandize osowa - $ 6,4 miliyoni mu 2015, $ 19,2 miliyoni mu 2016 ndi $ 23,6 miliyoni mu 2017.

Nthawi yomweyo, Acton adayambitsa banja, maziko ochirikizidwa ndi opereka chithandizo. Ili ndi ntchito yofanana ndi ya Sunlight Giving komanso imathandizira kuteteza nyama zomwe zatsala pang'ono kutha.

Panthawi imodzimodziyo, Acton sanakane chidwi ndi zoyambira zaukadaulo. Zaka ziwiri zapitazo, adatsogolera gulu lothandizira ndalama za Trak N Tell, kampani ya telematics yomwe imagwira ntchito bwino pakutsata magalimoto. Pamodzi ndi osunga ndalama ena awiri, adakweza pafupifupi $ 3,5 miliyoni pakampaniyo.

Osataya mtima

Mutha kupeza zolemba zambiri zolimbikitsa pa intaneti potengera zomwe Acton adakumana nazo, kusiya Facebook, komanso kupambana kwake pabizinesi. Kwa ambiri, iyi ndi nkhani yokhala ndi makhalidwe olimbikitsa ndi malangizo kuti musataye mtima. Iye mwini anakhala ngati chizindikiro cha chipiriro ndi kudzidalira, ngakhale zotsutsana ndi zolephera.

Chotero ngati mwakanidwa ndi kampani yaikulu, ngati munalephera m’bizinesi kapena sayansi, kumbukirani kuti kulephera n’kwakanthaŵi ndipo simuyenera konse kusiya maloto anu. Osachepera ndi zomwe anthu omwe akufuna kupeza kudzoza m'nkhaniyi akunena.

Kutengera kusanthula kwa moyo wa Brian mpaka pano, titha kuwerenga apa ndi apo kuti ngati mukulephera lero, ngati mwakanidwa, komabe simudzasiya zolinga zanu ndikukhalabe mukuchita, kunyalanyaza zolephera, ngati mupitiliza. njira yako, pamenepo kupambana kudzadza ndi kulawa bwino koposa ngati kubwera nthawi yomweyo.

Ndipo ikadzatero, sikudzakhala chigonjetso chanu chokha, komanso chilimbikitso kwa ena - omwe akudziwa, ngakhale m'badwo wonse. Kupatula apo, palibe amene akanakumbukira ma tweets owawa a Acton mu 2009 akadapanda kupambana pabizinesi zaka zisanu pambuyo pake. Zinali zokhazokha zomwe zinachitika mu 2014 kuti nkhani yochititsa chidwi inalengedwa yomwe imanenedwa ndi aliyense amene akufuna kudzozedwa nayo.

Chifukwa mawu a Acton - "Ndikuyembekezera ulendo wotsatira m'moyo wanga" - adatenga tanthauzo osati pamene adalembedwa, koma pamene ulendowu unachitikadi. Izi mwinanso si Brian yekha ndi ulendo otsiriza.