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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 billion.

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    4 days ago · PROFILE. Jan Koum. CEO, cofounder, WhatsApp Inc. $16B. Real Time Net Worth. as of 5/25/24. #118 in the world today. Photo by Gabriela Hasbun/The Forbes Collection. About Jan Koum. Jan Koum...

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  4. 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.

  5. Jan Koum is a Ukrainian-born American internet entrepreneur who co-founded the mobile messaging application WhatsApp with Brian Acton. The extremely popular mobile application was acquired by Facebook Inc. in 2014 for a whooping US$19 billion.

  6. Jul 9, 2022 · We are talking about the co-founder of the world's most popular messaging application, WhatsApp, Jan Koum. In this article, discover the success story of Jan Koum. How he started from poverty and the challenges of making a messaging platform for the world that loves it very much. Jan Koum - Biography. Jan Koum - Early Life. Jan Koum - Career Growth

  7. 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...

  8. 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...