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      • After Jan Koum, a Ukrainian immigrant who came to America with his mother, agreed to sell WhatsApp to Facebook for $19 billion, he took the contract to the welfare office where he once collected food stamps, signed it on the door—and “WhatsApp’d” the picture to Forbes. Koum almost never talks publicly.
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    Feb 20, 2014 · Jan Koum picked a meaningful spot to sign the $19 billion deal to sell his company WhatsApp to Facebook earlier today.

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

    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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  6. www.forbes.com › sites › parmyolsonInside The Facebook-WhatsApp Megadeal: The Courtship, The ...

    Mar 4, 2014 · Koum, a shy but brilliant engineer who moved from Ukraine to the U.S. with nothing, will join the Facebook board and, after taxes, pocket $6.8 billion. Click here to read the rags-to-riches story...

  7. financialpost.com › technology › how-whatsapp-coHow WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum went from food stamps to a ...

    Feb 20, 2014 · The US$19 billion deal to sell WhatsApp Inc. to Facebook Inc. started at Yahoo! Inc. more than five years ago, when Jan Koum became disillusioned at the way Internet companies were fixated on advertising.

  8. www.forbes.com › sites › ryanmacWhatsApp Founders Become Billionaires In $19 Billion Facebook ...

    Feb 19, 2014 · On Wednesday, the Menlo Park, Calif.-based company announced a record $19 billion for messaging service WhatsApp, instantly taking its cofounders Jan Koum and Brian Acton into the realm of...

  9. www.businessinsider.in › The-Sentimental-PlaceThe Sentimental Place Where WhatsApp's CEO Signed The $19 ...

    The Sentimental Place Where WhatsApp's CEO Signed The $19 Billion Facebook Deal Shows How Far He's Come In Life. Alyson Shontell. Feb 20 2014 07:12 IST. Flickr via Hubert Burda Media....

  10. time.com › 3477028Facebook Seals Its $19 Billion Purchase of WhatsApp | TIME

    Oct 7, 2014 · Ukrainian immigrant Jan Koum and former Yahoo engineer Brian Acton, the founders of WhatsApp, pocketed $6.8 billion and $3.5 billion in the deal respectively, according to Forbes. Koum...

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