Jan Koum: Founders Of WhatsApp and Technology Entrepreneurs

Jan Koum is a Technology entrepreneur and Co-founder and CEO of WhatsApp with Brian Acton and also a good computer science engineer and Hacker and responsible to prevent the bad hackler to do any fraud or anything wrong. The WhatsApps was acquired by Facebook Inc in Fab, 2014 for $19 billion. Jan koum is one of those man who gone Facebook for interview but rejected every time and then he came up with the idea of WhatsApp with his friend Brian Acton. The WhatsApp came into the picture five years ago when he got rejected from much internet company because he thinks that the companies are too much obsessed with the advertising and marketing instead of following the innovation in the in the industry. He joined Yahoo as Infrastructure engineer, where he met with Brian Acton. He was working as the security tester and both became friends and wanted to start their own business and he left yahoo in 2007 and bought an iPhone where he realize that the App store is about to come with a huge app industry. With hours of talking they came up with the idea of WhatsApp because it just sounds like “Whats up” and in 2009 they registered the WhatsApp Inc.

“WhatsApp doesn’t collect information like name, gender, address or age. Instead, users are approved after their phone numbers are authenticated. It’s a decidedly contrarian approach shaped by Jan’s experience growing up in a communist country with a secret police,” said Goetz in a blog post yesterday on Sequoia’s website. “Jan’s childhood made him appreciate communication that was not bugged or taped.” Read More at Bloomberg

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Now after the Facebook Acquisition of WhatsApp, Jan Koum having thought to incorporate the voice talking too over the internet and with the 2015 comopany will be providing the voice talk over the App for all peoples.