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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Jan_KoumJan Koum - Wikipedia

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   Jan Koum (Ukrainian: Ян Кум; born Yan Borysovych Kum, Ukrainian: Ян Борисович Кум, on February 24, 1976) is a Ukrainian-American billionaire businessman and computer programmer. He is the co-founder and former CEO of WhatsApp , a mobile messaging app which was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for US$19.3 billion.

2. www.forbes.com › profile › jan-koumJan Koum - Forbes

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   4 days ago · Learn about Jan Koum, the self-made billionaire who cofounded WhatsApp, the world's biggest mobile messaging service, and sold it to Facebook for $22 billion in 2014. See his net worth, philanthropy, biography, and quotes.

   • Occupation: CEO, Cofounder

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   Where did Jan Koum grow up?

   • 1976 Jan Koum is born near Kiev, Ukraine. 1992 Immigrates to Mountain View, California, with his mother. 1997 Starts working as infrastructure engineer at Yahoo. Father dies in Ukraine. 2007 Leaves Yahoo. Spends year traveling South America and playing frisbee.

   Bloomberg Billionaires Index - Jan Koum

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   Who is Jan Koum?

   • Jan Koum ( Ukrainian: Ян Кум; born Yan Borysovych Kum, Ukrainian: Ян Борисович Кум, on February 24, 1976) is a Ukrainian-American billionaire businessman and computer programmer. He is the co-founder and former CEO of WhatsApp, a mobile messaging app which was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for US$19.3 billion.

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   How much is Koum worth?

   • His Net Worth: Forbes estimates that Koum owns about 45 percent of WhatsApp, which would net him $6.8 billion in the deal. That figure dwarfs the amount the founders of Twitter received during the company’s IPO in November. Facebook has a habit of turning low-profile CEOs into overnight celebrities.

   WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum: Everything You Need to Know | TIME

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   Why did Jan Koum leave WhatsApp?

   • It has been published online for the first time following news that Jan Koum is to leave WhatsApp, reportedly over differences in opinion about user privacy. When he was living on welfare, Jan Koum’s family collected food stamps a couple of blocks from the unmarked Mountain View office that now houses his company, WhatsApp.

   The inside story of Jan Koum and how Facebook bought WhatsApp

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4. www.wired.com › story › whats-app-owner-founder-janThe inside story of Jan Koum and how Facebook bought WhatsApp

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   May 1, 2018 · May 1, 2018 10:48 AM. The inside story of Jan Koum and how Facebook bought WhatsApp. In 2014, as Facebook was secretly preparing to buy WhatsApp for $19 billion, WIRED profiled founder Jan...

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5. www.forbes.com › sites › parmyolsonBest Stories Of The Decade: “The Rags-To-Riches ... - Forbes

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   Dec 23, 2019 · We're republishing our finest work from the past decade, including this tale of how billionaire Jan Koum founded WhatsApp. It’s arguably the greatest rags-to-riches saga in American history ...

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7. www.businessinsider.com › whatsapp-ceo-jan-koumJan Koum: How the WhatsApp Cofounder Went From Food Stamps to ...

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   May 18, 2017 · WhatsApp cofounder Jan Koum. Reuters. Koum now leads a team of around 100 people working on WhatsApp, which is used heavily in developing countries like India and Brazil. And he sold over half...

8. www.bloomberg.com › billionaires › profilesBloomberg Billionaires Index - Jan Koum

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   3 days ago · Jan Koum is a co-founder and former CEO of WhatsApp, a messaging app sold to Facebook for $22 billion in 2014. See his net worth, biography, milestones, latest news and more on Bloomberg's ranking of the world's richest people.

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10. time.com › 8838WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum: Everything You Need to Know | TIME

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    Feb 20, 2014 · Today it’s Jan Koum, who just sold his mobile messaging platform WhatsApp to Facebook for $19 billion in cash and stock. Koum had been a relatively low-key CEO, giving few media interviews as...