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Jan Koum
Jan Koum
American Businessman
Born: Feb 24, 1976
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I grew up in a society where everything you did was eavesdropped on, recorded, snitched on. I had friends when we were kids getting into trouble for telling anecdotes about Communist leaders. Jan Koum
You Trouble Society Everything Kids Telling Anecdotes About Recorded Had Leaders Were Up Friends Did Getting Where Grew Communist
At WhatsApp, our engineers spend all their time fixing bugs, adding new features and ironing out all the little intricacies in our task of bringing rich, affordable, reliable messaging to every phone in the world. That's our product, and that's our passion. Your data isn't even in the picture. We are simply not interested in any of it. Jan Koum
Time World Phone Passion Picture Rich Every Adding Our Spend Out Reliable Data Features Simply New Messaging Bugs Task Fixing Affordable Ironing WhatsApp Any Not Interested Interested Little Product Your Engineers Even Bringing
Advertising isn't just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. At every company that sells ads, a significant portion of their engineering team spends their day tuning data mining, writing better code to collect all your personal data. Jan Koum
Day Writing Intelligence Better Thought Engineering Every Collect Significant Mining Data Ads Advertising Insults Aesthetic Sells Train Personal Just Tuning Your Team Company Code Portion Disruption Interruption
The F-word here is focus. Jan Koum
Focus Here
The encryption genie is out of the bottle. Jan Koum
Out Bottle Genie Encryption
'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. Jan Koum
Family Simple Way Ensuring Stay Touch Costs Simple Idea Could Idea Without Began Friends Family And Friends WhatsApp Anyone Anywhere Planet Standing
Marketing and press kicks up dust. It gets in your eye, and then you're not focusing on the product. Jan Koum
You Dust Marketing Kicks Press Focusing Eye Up Gets Then Product Your
I want to do one thing and do it well. Jan Koum
One Thing Well Want Thing
I grew up in a country where I remember my parents not being able to have a conversation on the phone. The walls had ears, and you couldn't speak freely. Jan Koum
You Conversation Speak Phone Remember Walls Parents Country Ears Able Had Freely Up Being Where Grew
Our phones are so intimately connected to us, to our lives. Putting advertising on a device like that is a bad idea. You don't want to be interrupted by ads when you're chatting with your loved ones. Jan Koum
You Phones Our Our Lives Bad Bad Idea Ads Chatting Putting Idea Device Like Advertising Want Loved Loved Ones Us Your Connected Lives Interrupted
Nobody should have the right to eavesdrop, or you become a totalitarian state - the kind of state I escaped as a kid to come to this country where you have democracy and freedom of speech. Jan Koum
Freedom Democracy You Freedom Of Speech Country Become State Kid Kind Totalitarian Totalitarian State Eavesdrop Nobody Come Escaped Where Should Right Speech
I hate spam, and that's what happens when you let businesses onto the network. Jan Koum
You Hate Network Onto Happens Spam Businesses
In some countries, WhatsApp is like oxygen. Jan Koum
Some Countries Like WhatsApp Oxygen
I only have one idea, that is WhatsApp, and I am going to continue to focus on that. I have no plans to build any other ideas. Jan Koum
Focus Build Other Only Idea Ideas Am Continue WhatsApp Any Going Plans
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. Jan Koum
Dancer Kid Indian Some Russia Disco Am Up Familiar Times Ironically Quite Grew Movies Bollywood Watched Watching
A lot of times, people start out with a lot of good ideas, but then they don't execute. They lose the purity of their vision. You end up running around in circles. Jan Koum
Good You People Vision Lose Good Ideas Circles Out Running Purity Ideas Execute Around Lot End Up Times Times People Then Start
Facebook, Google, Apple, Yahoo - there's a common theme. None of these companies ever sold. By staying independent, they were able to build a great company. Jan Koum
Great Facebook Google Build Sold Independent Able Staying Yahoo None Were Common Theme Companies Company Ever Apple
No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they'll see tomorrow. Jan Koum
Tomorrow Thinking See About More Ads No-One Excited Advertising Wakes Up Goes Sleep
I grew up in a country where advertising doesn't exist. Jan Koum
Country Advertising Exist Up Where Grew
There were a lot of negatives, of course, but there were positives to living a life unfettered by possessions. It gave us the chance to focus on education, which was very important in the Soviet Union. Jan Koum
Life Education Focus Important Living Gave Negatives Positives Possessions Course Were Lot Very Soviet Soviet Union Unfettered Which Us Union Chance
People have SMS, right? It stinks. It's a dead technology, like a fax machine left over from the Seventies, sitting there as a cash cow for carriers. Jan Koum
Technology People Seventies Machine Fax Cash Over Like Dead Cow Stinks Left Sitting Right
We've taken SMS technology for consumers and improved it. Jan Koum
Technology Consumers Taken Improved
I grew up watching Indian movies as a kid in Russia. I am quite familiar with Bollywood. Jan Koum
Kid Indian Russia Am Up Familiar Quite Grew Movies Bollywood Watching
I grew up watching 'Disco Dancer'. I watched it some 20 times as a kid. Jan Koum
Dancer Kid Some Disco Up Times Grew Watched Watching
Everybody I meet who uses 'WhatsApp', I ask them a question: 'How did you hear about it?' And they say, 'My friends, my sister or my brother, somebody I know hounded me to install WhatsApp.' We think there is more power to the network when it grows organically. Jan Koum
Me You Somebody Power Sister Think Everybody Meet Say Brother About More Network More Power Install Know How Hear Question Friends Did WhatsApp Them Ask Organically Who Uses They Say Grows
People appreciate a good product, a stable system. They want to communicate easily and use a product that just works. Jan Koum
Good People Communicate Easily System Stable Just Want Product Use Works Appreciate
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