Former WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum announced his departure from Facebook yesterday. He said
It is time for me to move on . . . I’m taking some time off to do things I enjoy outside of technology, such as collecting rare air-cooled Porsches, working on my cars and playing ultimate frisbee.
The parent company filed an SEC document stating that he will no stand for re-election to Facebook’s board of directors.
“On April 30, 2018, in connection with his resignation from his position as Chief Executive Officer of WhatsApp, He informed Facebook, Inc. (the “Company”) that he will not stand for re-election to the Board of Directors of the Company at the Company’s 2018 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “2018 Annual Meeting”).
The board members Facebook has now are CEO Mark Zuckerberg, COO Sheryl Sandberg, Andreessen Horowitz’s Marc Andreessen, Founders Fund’s Peter Thiel, General Catalyst’s Kenneth I. Chenault, University of North Carolina’s Erskine B. Bowles, University of California – San Francisco’s Susan D. Desmond-Hellmann, and Netflix’s Reed Hastings.
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