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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Jan_KoumJan Koum - Wikipedia

    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.

  2. www.forbes.com › profile › jan-koumJan Koum - Forbes

    Jul 8, 2024 · 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...

  3. www.wired.com › story › whats-app-owner-founder-jan-koum-facebookThe inside story of Jan Koum and how Facebook bought WhatsApp

    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 WhatsApp...

  4. www.forbes.com › sites › alexkonradA Secretive $10 Billion Firm Backed By WhatsApp Billionaire Jan...

    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

  5. atouchofbusiness.com › biographies › jan-koumJan Koum: From Ukrainian Struggles to WhatsApp Billionaire

    Oct 14, 2023 · Jan Koum: The Inspirational Story of the Founder of WhatsApp. Jan Koum – Wikipedia. Categories Biographies. Discover Jan Koum's inspirational rise, from humble beginnings in Kyiv to co-founding WhatsApp, one of the world's biggest tech acquisitions.

  6. www.bloomberg.com › billionaires › profilesBloomberg Billionaires Index - Jan Koum

    Jul 8, 2024 · # 122 Jan Koum $16.8B. Random fact: Worked for almost a decade as a software engineer at Yahoo. Overview. Koum is a co-founder and former chief executive of WhatsApp, a messaging app that has...

  7. www.businessinsider.com › whatsapp-ceo-jan-koum-rags-to-riches-2017-5Jan Koum: How the WhatsApp Cofounder Went From Food Stamps to ...

    May 18, 2017 · WhatsApp cofounder Jan Koum. Reuters. Koum now leads a team of around 100 people working on WhatsApp, which is used heavily in developing countries like India and Brazil. And he sold over half...

  8. www.cnbc.com › 2017/04/24 › how-whatsapp-founder-jan-koum-went-from-welfare-toHow WhatsApp founder Jan Koum went from welfare to billionaire

    Apr 24, 2017 · Former WhatsApp CEO and co-founder Jan Koum. David Ramos | Getty Images. Roughly one in seven people on earth have Jan Koum, and his company WhatsApp, to thank for their ability to call and...

  9. www.forbes.com › sites › parmyolsonBest Stories Of The Decade: “The Rags-To-Riches Tale Of How Jan...

    Dec 23, 2019 · After Jan Koum, a Ukrainian immigrant who came to America with his mother, agreed to sell WhatsApp to Facebook for $19 billion, he took the contract to the welfare office where he once collected...

  10. www.britannica.com › biography › Jan-KoumJan Koum | Ukrainian-American businessman and computer programmer

    Koum, a Ukrainian immigrant who had just begun attending classes at San Jose State University, and Acton, a Stanford-educated programmer, met while Acton was working for Internet pioneer Yahoo! in 1997. Koum was soon offered a job with the Mountain View, California-based company,…

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