29 Quotes by Brian Acton

The best part of working with Facebook has been the cross-fertilization of ideas, people, and technology.

I think every acquisition is unique and different. The best strategy is to listen to the founders and follow their lead.

Companies that have been built and operated for a long time are the most successful companies.

Dealing with ads is depressing. You don't make anyone's life better by making advertisements work better.

I myself saw Yahoo become a $100 billion company and then become a $10 billion company, so you always have to look at valuations with a grain of salt and understand it is a point-in-time measure.

My DNA is building a product and a service.

The phone is one hundred, one hundred and ten years old. There was a middle period where the government had a broad ability to surveil, but if you look at human history in total, people evolved and civilizations evolved with private conversations and private speech.

In early 2010, we launched our first localized version of 'WhatsApp' for iPhone. It included Spanish and German language translations, to name a couple.

I don't really want to be in the business of observing conversations.