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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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   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.

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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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   Who is Koum and what did he do for a living?

   • Koum was born and raised in a village outside of Kiev, Ukraine, the only child of a housewife and a construction manager. He immigrated to California with his mother at age 16, enrolling at San Jose State University and working at Ernst & Young as a security tester.

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2. 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.

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

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   4 days ago · PROFILE. Jan Koum. CEO, cofounder, WhatsApp Inc. $16B. Real Time Net Worth. as of 5/25/24. #118 in the world today. Photo by Gabriela Hasbun/The Forbes Collection. About Jan Koum. Jan Koum...

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5. leaders.com › articles › leaders-storiesJan Koum: The Inspirational Story of the Founder of WhatsApp

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   Feb 28, 2022 · Jan Koum: The Inspirational Story of the Founder of WhatsApp. Jan Koum became a billionaire in the very building he used to pick up food stamps for himself and his mother. Today, Koum’s net worth is $9.9 billion. Why someone hasn’t turned the life story of the father of WhatsApp into a movie is beyond anyone’s best guess.

6. 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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8. 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...

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   3 days ago · Overview. Koum is a co-founder and former chief executive of WhatsApp, a messaging app that has been downloaded onto more than six billion devices. The app was launched in 2009 and sold to...

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...