American - Businessman | February 24, 1976 -
Experiences from our youth shape what we do later in life.
Jan Koum
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'WhatsApp' began as a simple idea: ensuring that anyone could stay in touch with family and friends anywhere on the planet, without costs or gimmicks standing in the way.
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In some ways, you can think of end-to-end encryption as honoring what the past looked like.
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The F-word here is focus.
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I have many regrets and things I wish I could go back and change, but I have also worked hard and tried to improve myself.
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We don't really talk about our future plans. But we, at the same time, try to build things that our users ask us for.
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In some countries, WhatsApp is like oxygen.
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It's important for people to have freedom to use whatever product they want. We have no problems with other people using other apps, so long as they keep using 'WhatsApp'.
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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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If you look at firms like General Electric or other large companies, they don't just do one thing; they do many different things to generate sources of revenue.
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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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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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