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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.
May 31, 2024 · Jan Koum cofounded WhatsApp, now the world's biggest mobile messaging service, in 2009. Facebook bought the startup for $22 billion in cash and stock in 2014. He resigned as CEO of...
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...
Feb 28, 2022 · As a Ukrainian immigrant who escaped the U.S.S.R., he moved to the United States, met even more extreme poverty, but still managed to build a billion-dollar company within five years. For entrepreneurs and business leaders, Jan Koum’s story serves as inspiration.
Dec 23, 2019 · 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...
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 half of...
Jun 1, 2024 · 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...
