Koum and Acton had already raised $250,000 in seed funding from a few ex-Yahoo employees, but they saw VC funding as a bailout. Still, Goetz was persistent. He assured the founders that he would act as a strategic advisor, helping them turn WhatsApp into the powerhouse he knew it could be. Eventually, Koum and Acton agreed to take $8 million from S

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Levie is bullish on the acquisition, because it puts Slack and Salesforce on more even ground.