Jan Koum, 47, is a Ukrainian-American billionaire businessman and computer programmer. (Jan is pronounced “Yahn.”) He is the co-founder and former CEO of WhatsApp, a mobile messaging app that was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for $19.3 billion. According to Forbes, Klum has an estimated net worth of $13.8 billion as of September 2022. After immigrating to the U.S. at age 16 with virtually no financial esources, Klum had to rely on food stamps to survive.
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Quote: “Nobody should have the right to eavesdrop, or you [to] become a totalitarian state — the kind of state I escaped as a kid to come to this country where you have democracy and freedom of speech.” | “At WhatsApp, our engineers spend all their time fixing bugs, adding new features and ironing out all the little intricacies in our task of bringing rich, affordable, reliable messaging to every phone in the world. That’s our product, and that’s our passion. Your data isn’t even in the picture. We are simply not interested in any of it.”
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