Ted Livingston (born 1987) is founder of Kik Messenger that provides mobile messaging service.
[5] Livingston took a mechatronics bachelor's degree at the University of Waterloo from 2005 to 2009[6] in order to "pursue his dream of building robots.
Livingston eventually landed a co-op position as a system engineering project coordinator at Research in Motion.
In December 2007, eight months into his co-op, Livingston was promoted by Research in Motion to "Technical Product Management Coordinator".
Back at Waterloo, Livingston decided to take part in the Velocity program, a startup-focused community where he founded Kik Messenger instead of completing his degree.