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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.
Jan Koum cofounded WhatsApp, now the world's biggest mobile messaging service, in 2009. Facebook bought the startup for $22 billion in cash and stock in 2014. He resigned as CEO of WhatsApp in...
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.
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 WhatsApp ...
Jan Koum, who controls a multi-billion-dollar charitable foundation, has not uttered a public word even as many other wealthy Ukrainians and Russians announce donations toward humanitarian relief...
Today it’s Jan Koum, who just sold his mobile messaging platform WhatsApp to Facebook for $19 billion in cash and stock. Koum had been a relatively low-key CEO, giving few media interviews as...
# 129 Jan Koum $13.9B Random fact: Co-founded WhatsApp with former Yahoo colleague Brian Acton. Overview Koum is a co-founder and former chief executive of WhatsApp, a messaging app that has...
Who is WhatsApp co-founder and CEO Jan Koum? With Facebook's announcement to acquire the messaging service, one of Silicon Valley's more private CEOs is now facing the limelight.
Jan Koum was Founder and CEO at Whatsapp. Read about his journey, Net Worth, Career History, Education and family.
Jan Koum is the co-founder and was the CEO of WhatsApp, a communication service that he co-founded in 2009. He is responsible for setting the overall direction and strategy for WhatsApp. Together with his co-founder Brian Acton, Jan is also responsible for the design and interface of WhatsApp's service and the development of its core.