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Jan Borysovych Koum[a] (born February 24, 1976 [1]) 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.
Jan Koum, the co-founder of WhatsApp, is a passionate advocate for privacy rights and has been vocal about the importance of protecting users' data. He reportedly drove a humble Audi sedan for many years, even after selling WhatsApp to Facebook for billions of dollars.
Feb 28, 2022 · Find out how Jan Koum, co-founder of WhatsApp, went from living in poverty to selling his company for $19 billion dollars.
May 1, 2018 · In 2014, as Facebook was secretly preparing to buy WhatsApp for $19 billion, WIRED profiled founder Jan Koum. This is the story of how he fled communism, lived on welfare, and then sold...
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Koum, a Ukrainian immigrant who had just begun attending classes at San Jose State University, and Acton, a Stanford-educated programmer, met while Acton was working for Internet pioneer Yahoo! in 1997. Koum was soon offered a job with the Mountain View, California-based company,…
Feb 20, 2014 · Koum, who Forbes believes owns 45% of WhatsApp and thus is suddenly worth $6.8 billion (net of taxes) -- was born and raised in a small village outside of Kiev, Ukraine, the only child of a...
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Jan Koum (Ukrainian: Ян Кум; born February 24, 1976) is a Ukrainian American entrepreneur and computer programmer. He is the co-founder and was the CEO of WhatsApp. [1]
