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Jun 18, 2022 · WhatsApp’s reclusive founder has quietly become a megadonor to Jewish causes. Ukrainian-born Jan Koum has gone almost unnoticed in the world of philanthropy, but tax returns reveal that the...
Yan Borysovych Koum was born in Kyiv, then in the Ukrainian SSR, on February 24, 1976 into a Jewish family. [4] He grew up in Fastiv . In 1992, at the age of 16, he moved with his mother and grandmother to Mountain View, California . [ 5 ]
Jun 16, 2022 · However, tax returns reveal that Koum, with a fortune estimated between $9.8 billion and $13.7 billion, has quietly become one of the largest donors to Jewish causes in the world. His...
Sep 12, 2021 · Jan Koum is your typical rags-to-riches success story, and considering that he co-founded Israel’s most popular media application, that title does not go undeserving. Koum was the mind behind...
Jun 15, 2022 · Billionaire Californian Jan Koum gives to Chabad, pro-Israel causes and Jewish relief efforts in his native Ukraine.
Jun 15, 2022 · One of Koum’s top Chabad-linked grantees is a nonprofit known as the Jewish Community Center of Moscow, whose address leads to a brown-brick residential building in Brooklyn, a few minutes’ walk away from Chabad’s global headquarters in Crown Heights.
Feb 20, 2014 · Jan Koum, CEO and co-founder of WhatsApp is a man who yearns for simplicity and is a firm believer in the significance of his actions.
