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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.
Apr 30, 2018 · Jan Koum’s exit is the highest-profile departure from Facebook after months of controversy at the social network. A company executive said security of user data was behind Mr. Koum’s decision.
WhatsApp was founded in February 2009 by Brian Acton and Jan Koum, former employees of Yahoo! A month earlier, after Koum purchased an iPhone, he and Acton decided to create an app for the App Store. The idea started off as an app that would display statuses in a phone's Contacts menu, showing if a person was at work or on a call.
Sep 26, 2018 · The past tense and wistfulness hang in the air. More than four years ago, Acton and his cofounder, Jan Koum, sold WhatsApp, which had relatively insignificant revenue, to Facebook for $22 billion ...
Jan Koum. Jan Koum ( Ukraina: Ян Кум; lahir 24 Februari 1976) adalah CEO dan pendiri WhatsApp bersama Brian Acton. WhatsApp merupakan aplikasi pesan bergerak yang diakuisisi oleh Facebook Inc. pada Februari 2014 dengan nilai $19 miliar. [2] [3] [4] Koum dibesarkan di sebuah desa di luar Kiev, Ukraina. Ia pindah ke California bersama ibu ...
Feb 21, 2014 · Jan Koum and Brian Acton founded WhatsApp in 2009 and became filthy rich fewer than five years later when they sold the company to Facebook for $19 billion. Advertisement The pair met while ...
Feb 20, 2014 · The only thing more stunning than WhatsApp's $19 billion price tag is the incredible journey of the messaging app's CEO Jan Koum. Koum was raised in Ukraine, immigrating in the early 1990s to the ...
