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To the casual spectator, Facebook is having a terrible year. Besieged by privacy scandals, the company was torn into by Congress, the press, and the public alike. To make things worse, the founders of WhatsApp and Instagram left Facebook in what seems to be a complete rejection of the company. <br> <br>The divide was so deep that WhatsApp co-founder and CEO Jan Koum forfeited up to $1.2 billion so he could leave the company last September—three years after selling his startup to Facebook for $19 billion. WhatsApp’s other cofounder, Brian Acton, left earlier this year, leaving $850 million in unvested options expire. Shortly after, he tweeted that he was deleting his Facebook account.