In August 2009, Brian Acton posted a remarkably calm update after Facebook turned him down for a job, writing that the interview had been a chance to meet “some fantastic people” and that he was looking forward to “life’s next adventure.” There was no public anger, no prediction that Facebook would regret its decision, and certainly no obvious indication that the rejected applicant would soon help create a mobile messaging company so valuable that Facebook itself would return five years later with one of the largest technology acquisition deals of its era.
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