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In 1998, Jan Koum was hired by Yahoo! as an infrastructure engineer shortly after he met Acton while working at Ernst & Young as a security tester. Over the next nine years, they worked at Yahoo!. Acton invested in the dotcom boom and lost millions in the dot-com bubble of 2000. In September 2007, Koum and Acton left Yahoo! and took a year off ...
Oct 14, 2023 · Born in the heart of Kyiv, Ukraine, Jan Koum grew up under the shadows of a communist regime. The struggles of his Jewish family, consisting of a construction worker father and a dedicated homemaker mother, were intensified due to the political environment. At 16, Koum and his mother immigrated to California, searching for a better life.
Oct 10, 2022 · Jan Koum is a Ukrainian-born internet entrepreneur who has a net worth of $13 billion. Jan Koum earned his fortune as the co-founder and former CEO of the popular messaging service WhatsApp.
Nov 27, 2023 · Jan Koum has long-since left Meta, which acquired his startup WhatsApp in 2014, but it remains a top holding of his firm Newlands. Photograph by Robert Gallagher/The Forbes Collection.
Aug 9, 2022 · Houses. As of May 2024, Jan Koum’s net worth is a massive $12 billion. Koum has properties in California valued at almost $450 million. In addition, Jan is the owner of a $100 million estate in the Northern California town of Atherton. He invested $57 million over four years to purchase 5.6 acres of the most exclusive and expensive real ...
Feb 20, 2014 · Maggie Reardon/CNET. WhatsApp co-founder and CEO Jan Koum isn't what you'd call a bragger, but he has plenty to boast about. In just five years, Koum and WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton have ...
Apr 30, 2018 · Jan Koum will also step down from Facebook’s board of directors, a role he negotiated when WhatsApp was acquired by Facebook for $19bn in 2014, according to the Washington Post.
