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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 22 quotes by Jan Koum Jan Koum (Ukrainian: Ян Кум, born in Kiev, Ukraine on February 24, 1976) is an American internet entrepreneur and computer engineer. He is the CEO and co-founder with Brian Acton of WhatsApp, a mobile messaging application which was acquired by Facebook Inc. in February 2014 for US$19 Billion. In 2014, he entered the Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans at position 62, with an estimated worth of more than seven and half billion dollars. He... Read full biography of Jan Koum → 1 2 Ctrl → Advertising isn't just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. At every... → 0 A lot of times, people start out with a lot of good ideas, but then they don't execute. They lose the purity of their vision. You end up running... → 0 At WhatsApp, our engineers spend all their time fixing bugs, adding new features and ironing out all the little intricacies in our task of bringing... → 0 I grew up in a society where everything you did was eavesdropped on, recorded, snitched on. I had friends when we were kids getting into trouble for... → 0 Utilities get out of the way. Can you imagine if you flipped a light switch and had to watch an ad before you got electricity? Can you imagine if you... → 0 Communication is at the very core of our society. That's what makes us human. 0 I didn't have a computer until I was 19 - but I did have an abacus. 0 I only have one idea, that is WhatsApp, and I am going to continue to focus on that. I have no plans to build any other ideas. 0 I want to do one thing and do it well. 0 Marketing and press kicks up dust. It gets in your eye, and then you're not focusing on the product. 0 No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they'll see tomorrow. 0 When advertising is involved, you, the user, are the product. 0 A lot of what I experienced growing up in the U.S.S.R. and coming to the U.S. as an immigrant actually reflects itself in Whatsapp. Experiences from... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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