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Jan Koum
Co-founder of WhatsApp
Santa Clara, CA
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About
Jan Koum co-founded WhatsApp in 2009 and sold it to Facebook in 2014 for about $19B, still among the largest acquisitions of a venture-backed private company ever. He grew up in Ukraine and emigrated to California on food stamps, worked at Yahoo for nine years alongside co-founder Brian Acton, and famously ran WhatsApp with no advertising and a skeleton engineering team serving hundreds of millions of users. He left Facebook in 2018.
Podcasts & interviews
featuring Jan KoumThe Billionaire Life of WhatsApp Founder: Jan Koum
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From Poverty to Silicon Valley: WhatsApp’s Jan Koum Story
Mindception - Empowering Your Mind
Jan Koum - WhatsApp founder - interview
mrSKYee
How to build a product with WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum
Y Combinator
Fireside of Jan Koum (WhatsApp) and Martin Varsavsky (Fon) - 4 Years From Now
4YFN
WhatsApp founder Jan Koum interviewed by David Rowan at DLD14
David Rowan
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Jan Koum?
- Jan Koum co-founded WhatsApp in 2009 and sold it to Facebook in 2014 for about $19B, still among the largest acquisitions of a venture-backed private company ever. He grew up in Ukraine and emigrated to California on food stamps, worked at Yahoo for nine years alongside co-founder Brian Acton, and famously ran WhatsApp with no advertising and a skeleton engineering team serving hundreds of millions of users. He left Facebook in 2018.
- What podcasts and interviews feature Jan Koum?
- Tracked appearances include "The Billionaire Life of WhatsApp Founder: Jan Koum", "From Poverty to Silicon Valley: WhatsApp’s Jan Koum Story", "Jan Koum - WhatsApp founder - interview", and 4 more.
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