Jan Koum
Jan Koum
Jan Koumis a Ukrainian-American internet inventor and computer programmer. He is the CEO and co-founder of WhatsApp, a mobile messaging application which was acquired by Facebook Inc. in February 2014 for US$19 Billion...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth24 February 1976
CountryUnited States of America
calls companies expensive family kid navigate phone trying
When I was a kid trying to communicate with family in the Soviet Union, it was very difficult. You had to go through the long-distance phone companies like MCI, which were difficult to navigate and expensive to make calls through.
team writing engineering
Advertising isnt just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. At every company that sells ads, a significant portion of their engineering team spends their day tuning data mining, writing better code to collect all your personal data.
sexy perspective people
We focus a lot on the quality of experience, speed, reliability. It’s not sexy from a lot of people’s perspective, it’s not glitzy in the feature set, but it’s what people come to rely on.
computer abacus
I didnt have a computer until I was 19 - but I did have an abacus.
simple
Be simple and reliable
eye dust marketing
Marketing and press kicks up dust. It gets in your eye, and then you’re not focusing on the product.
home gps data
You don't have to give us your name and we don't ask for your email address. We don't know your birthday. We don't know your home address. We don't know where you work. We don't know your likes, what you search for on the internet or collect your GPS location. None of that data has ever been collected and stored by WhatsApp, and we really have no plans to change that.
sleep thinking wake-up
No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads theyll see tomorrow.
kids communist-leaders anecdotes
I grew up in a society where everything you did was eavesdropped on, recorded, snitched on. I had friends when we were kids getting into trouble for telling anecdotes about Communist leaders.
want wells one-thing
I want to do one thing, and do it well.
running circles ideas
A lot of times, people start out with a lot of good ideas, but then they don't execute. They lose the purity of their vision. You end up running around in circles.