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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
4 days ago · 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 WhatsApp...
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.
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...
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...
Jan 19, 2018 · Former WhatsApp CEO and co-founder Jan Koum. David Ramos | Getty Images. Jan Koum, co-founder and CEO of Facebook ’s WhatsApp messaging service, says the idea for the company he...
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...
