Its founders: Wickr is as close to a private platform as one can expect in a connected world, saving no information to a server and and no data on its users. According to their "About us" they're a small company, thus they have a small team.
Good security experts are very hard to find. - The problem with Wickr is that there is no independent code review nor is there any good documentation about their security design. This means that we can only guess about how safe it is.
My experience with wick is that i feel it's quite safe, considering you don't have to register any email or phone number, only a username and a password. Which makes it more safe as only you know the password.. If you forget, well... you are out of luck.
And another downside is that Wick seems to be crashing alot, (wick app has stopped)
Which is fucking annoying. oh well.---