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ABOUT JAN KOUM
Jan Koum is an American internet entrepreneur with an
estimated net worth of $6.7 billion as of May 2015,
according to Forbes. He is best recognized as the co-
founder and chief executive officer of the mobile
messaging application “WhatsApp”. In February 2014, the application was acquired by Facebook for $19 billion.
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Jan Koum
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A lot of times, people start out with a lot of
good ideas, but then they don't execute. They
lose the purity of their vision. You end up
running around in circles.
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I didn't have a computer until I was 19 - but I
did have an abacus.
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Communication is at the very core of our
society. That's what makes us human.
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Marketing and press kicks up dust. It gets in
your eye, and then you're not focusing on the
product.
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I grew up in a country where I remember my
parents not being able to have a conversation
on the phone. The walls had ears, and you
couldn't speak freely.
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Facebook, Google, Apple, Yahoo - there's a
common theme. None of these companies
ever sold. By staying independent, they were
able to build a great company.
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Ironically, I grew up watching Indian movies as
a kid in Russia. I am quite familiar with
Bollywood. I grew up watching 'Disco Dancer;'
I watched it some 20 times as a kid.
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Our phones are so intimately connected to us,
to our lives. Putting advertising on a device like
that is a bad idea. You don't want to be
interrupted by ads when you're chatting with
your loved ones.
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Our phones are so intimately connected to us,
to our lives. Putting advertising on a device like
that is a bad idea. You don't want to be
interrupted by ads when you're chatting with
your loved ones.
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I grew up in a society where everything you
did was eavesdropped on, recorded, snitched
on. I had friends when we were kids getting
into trouble for telling anecdotes about
Communist leaders.
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I only have one idea, that is WhatsApp, and I
am going to continue to focus on that. I have
no plans to build any other ideas.
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I grew up in Russia. We had a telephone line,
but a load of our neighbours didn't. It became
a shared resource for the whole apartment
complex. People would come and knock on
the door and ask to call their family in another
city.
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A lot of what I experienced growing up in the
U.S.S.R. and coming to the U.S. as an
immigrant actually reflects itself in Whatsapp.
Experiences from our youth shape what we do
later in life.
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There were a lot of negatives, of course, but
there were positives to living a life unfettered
by possessions. It gave us the chance to focus
on education, which was very important in the
Soviet Union.
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Utilities get out of the way. Can you imagine if
you flipped a light switch and had to watch
an ad before you got electricity? Can you
imagine if you turned on a faucet and had to
watch an ad before the water came out?
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Advertising isn't just the disruption of aesthetics,
the insults to your intelligence and the
interruption of your train of thought. At every
company that sells ads, a significant portion of
their engineering team spends their day tuning
data mining, writing better code to collect all
your personal data.
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No one wakes up excited to see more
advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking
about the ads they'll see tomorrow.
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When advertising is involved, you, the user, are
the product.
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