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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Jan_KoumJan Koum - Wikipedia

    Jan Koum (Ukrainian: Ян Кум; born Yan Borysovych Kum, Ukrainian: Ян Борисович Кум, on February 24, 1976) is a Ukrainian-American billionaire businessman and computer programmer. He is the co-founder and former CEO of WhatsApp , a mobile messaging app which was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for US$19.3 billion.

  2. www.forbes.com › profile › jan-koumJan Koum - Forbes

    1 day ago · Jan Koum. PROFILE. Jan Koum. CEO, cofounder, WhatsApp Inc. $15.9B. $34M (0.21%) Real Time Net Worth. as of 5/31/24. #118 in the world today. Photo by Gabriela Hasbun/The Forbes Collection....

  3. leaders.com › articles › leaders-storiesJan Koum: The Inspirational Story of the Founder of WhatsApp -...

    Feb 28, 2022 · As a Ukrainian immigrant who escaped the U.S.S.R., he moved to the United States, met even more extreme poverty, but still managed to build a billion-dollar company within five years. For entrepreneurs and business leaders, Jan Koum’s story serves as inspiration.

  4. www.wired.com › story › whats-app-owner-founder-jan-koum-facebookThe inside story of Jan Koum and how Facebook bought WhatsApp

    May 1, 2018 · May 1, 2018 10:48 AM. The inside story of Jan Koum and how Facebook bought WhatsApp. In 2014, as Facebook was secretly preparing to buy WhatsApp for $19 billion, WIRED profiled founder Jan...

  5. www.bloomberg.com › billionaires › profilesBloomberg Billionaires Index - Jan Koum

    2 days ago · Overview. Koum is a co-founder and former chief executive of WhatsApp, a messaging app that has been downloaded onto more than six billion devices. The app was launched in 2009 and sold to...

  6. www.cnbc.com › 2017/04/24 › how-whatsapp-founder-jan-koum-wentHow WhatsApp founder Jan Koum went from welfare to billionaire - ...

    Apr 24, 2017 · Former WhatsApp CEO and co-founder Jan Koum. David Ramos | Getty Images. Roughly one in seven people on earth have Jan Koum, and his company WhatsApp, to thank for their ability to call and...

  7. www.forbes.com › sites › parmyolsonBest Stories Of The Decade: “The Rags-To-Riches Tale Of How Jan...

    Dec 23, 2019 · After Jan Koum, a Ukrainian immigrant who came to America with his mother, agreed to sell WhatsApp to Facebook for $19 billion, he took the contract to the welfare office where he once...