

In 2015 former Twitter Inc ( NYSE: TWTR) employee Moxie Marlinspike combined 2 secure messaging products to create Signal. Firstly, let’s grasp a novel understanding of what Signal is and how it has come to find itself topping the app stores around the world. The truth is Signal is not a publicly traded company, but we’ll get into that a little bit later.

Better still, what even is Signal? And why does it get the endorsement of Tesla Inc ( NASDAQ: TSLA) founder and world’s richest person, Elon Musk?

You’d be forgiven if you missed Signal’s spontaneous rise to stardom amongst the flurry of big tech interventions and controversies. The last week certainly has been anything but boring, especially for the Signal app and its alleged ‘share price’.
