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In this weekly series, CNBC takes a look at companies that made the inaugural Disruptor 50 list, 10 years later.
Following the launch of the iPhone in 2009, Former Yahoo! employees Brian Acton and Jan Koum had the idea to create an app that would allow users to update statuses on their contact list, which would then signal to their contacts where they were, or what they were up to at the moment. Koum recruited the services of iPhone developer…
