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 KoumHow to build a product with WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum
Y Combinator
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 "How to build a product with WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum".