American - Businessman | February 24, 1976 -
I had so much fun in early days learning about networking, security, scalability and other geeky stuff.
Jan Koum
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On my iPhone 3GS, I use 'Instagram', 'Twitter' and 'Touch'.
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I hate spam, and that's what happens when you let businesses onto the network.
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We're not interested in bombarding our users with, 'Hey, play this game, play this game, play this game.' It gets annoying, it gets in the way of messaging, and it gets in the way of staying in touch with people who are important to you.
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WhatsApp's extremely high user engagement and rapid growth are driven by the simple, powerful and instantaneous messaging capabilities we provide.
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We're somewhat lucky here in the United States, where we hope that the checks and balances hold out for many years to come and decades to come. But in a lot of countries, you don't have these checks and balances.
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A lot of companies are global.
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We hear lots of stories where grandparents go to a store and buy a smartphone so they can keep in touch with kids and grandkids.
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We want to do one thing and do it really well. For us, that's communications between people who are friends and relatives.
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The difficult part for us is adding features without making the product more complicated.
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People need to differentiate us from companies like Yahoo! and Facebook that collect your data and have it sitting on their servers. We want to know as little about our users as possible.
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We're not advertisement-driven, so we don't need personal databases.
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