3. Jan Koum
🏅Jan Koum, the founder of WhatsApp, was born in a small village near Kiev in Ukraine.
🏅Coming from poverty, Koum's family emigrated to California, and Koum started learning about computers in his spare time.
🏅By the time he was 18, he had developed impressive skills, and in 1997, he was hired by Yahoo! as an infrastructure engineer.
🏅He spent a decade in that industry before realizing the huge potential of the app industry in 2009 and starting WhatsApp Inc.
🏅By 2014, WhatsApp had become enormously popular.
🏅Facebook bought the app for a staggering $19 billion.
🏅5 ᴇɴᴛʀᴇᴘʀᴇɴᴇᴜʀs ᴡʜᴏ sᴛᴀʀᴛᴇᴅ ᴡɪᴛʜ ɴᴏᴛʜɪɴɢ 🏅
Jayson DeMers
@FinancialFreedomMagazine
🏅Jan Koum, the founder of WhatsApp, was born in a small village near Kiev in Ukraine.
🏅Coming from poverty, Koum's family emigrated to California, and Koum started learning about computers in his spare time.
🏅By the time he was 18, he had developed impressive skills, and in 1997, he was hired by Yahoo! as an infrastructure engineer.
🏅He spent a decade in that industry before realizing the huge potential of the app industry in 2009 and starting WhatsApp Inc.
🏅By 2014, WhatsApp had become enormously popular.
🏅Facebook bought the app for a staggering $19 billion.
🏅5 ᴇɴᴛʀᴇᴘʀᴇɴᴇᴜʀs ᴡʜᴏ sᴛᴀʀᴛᴇᴅ ᴡɪᴛʜ ɴᴏᴛʜɪɴɢ 🏅
Jayson DeMers
@FinancialFreedomMagazine