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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.
Jul 9, 2022 · Jan Koum grew up in Kyiv, Ukraine, in a Jewish family. His father was a construction worker, and his mother used to do household chores. Life was not that easy for him as they used to be surrounded by communists.
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...
Apr 24, 2017 · Koum was born in Kiev in the Ukraine, and when he was 16, he and his mother immigrated, leaving his father behind, in the hopes of finding a better life. They moved to Mountain View,...
Feb 20, 2014 · Koum, who Forbes believes owns 45% of WhatsApp and thus is suddenly worth $6.8 billion (net of taxes) -- was born and raised in a small village outside of Kiev, Ukraine, the only child of a...
Feb 20, 2014 · Koum came from a simple background in Kiev, Ukraine in 1993 and today became a multi-billionaire after selling WhatsApp to Facebook for $19 billion, with his share of the deal estimated...
Jan 19, 2018 · Jan Koum, co-founder and CEO of Facebook ’s WhatsApp messaging service, says the idea for the company he co-founded with Brian Acton in 2009 came about so he could stop missing calls on his...
