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Jan Borysovych Koum [a] (born February 24, 1976 [1]) 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.
WhatsApp founder and Chief Executive Officer Jan Koum is leaving Facebook Inc., just a few years after his messaging app was acquired by the social-media giant for $22 billion.. Koum posted his ...
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. [27]
Two years after Acton joined Yahoo, Jan Koum was hired as an infrastructure engineer shortly after he met Acton while working at Ernst & Young as a security tester. [10] Over the next nine years, the two worked together at Yahoo. Acton lost millions in the dot-com bubble of 2000. In September 2007, Koum and Acton left Yahoo! and took a year off ...
Jan Koum (4 Years): WhatsApp Co-Founder. Jan Koum emigrated from Ukraine to the U.S. as a teenager, settling in California. He attended San Jose State University and worked at Yahoo before co ...
Jan Koum and his mother moved from Ukraine to the U.S. when he was 16 and secured an apartment through government assistance. He went on to found the world’s largest mobile messaging service, ...
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WhatsApp Timeline; Feb 24, 2009: Jan Koum incorporates WhatsApp in California. [1]Aug 2009: WhatsApp 2.0 is released on the App Store for the iPhone. [2]Oct 2009: Brian Acton persuades five ex-Yahoo! friends to invest $250,000 in seed funding, and is granted co-founder status.