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Jan Koum
American
Businessman
Born:
Feb 24
,
1976
About
Build
Facebook
Our
People
You
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Pavel Durov only knows how to copy great products like Facebook and 'WhatsApp'; he never had and will never have original ideas.
Jan Koum
Great
Facebook
Will
Only
Never
Had
He
Like
Ideas
Knows
How
WhatsApp
Products
Original
Original Ideas
Copy
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'.
Jan Koum
Freedom
People
Problems
Long
Important
Whatever
Other
Apps
No Problems
WhatsApp
Want
Product
Use
Using
Keep
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.
Jan Koum
You
Game
People
Important
Our
Way
Hey
Staying
Touch
Annoying
Messaging
Gets
Not Interested
Interested
Who
Users
Play
We're not advertisement-driven, so we don't need personal databases.
Jan Koum
Databases
Personal
Need
The argument can be made: Maybe you want to trust the government, but you shouldn't because you don't know where things are going to go in the future.
Jan Koum
Future
Government
You
Trust
Made
Argument
Know
Because
Go
Going
Maybe
Where
Want
Things
In Russia, you really learn about a person.
Jan Koum
You
About
Russia
Learn
Person
Really
We obviously try to be in tune with what our users want.
Jan Koum
Try
Our
Obviously
Want
Tune
Users
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.
Jan Koum
Myself
Change
Wish
Back
Tried
Could
Also
Go
Improve
Regrets
Worked
Hard
Many
Things
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.
Jan Koum
Future
Time
Try
Build
Our
About
Talk
Same
Same Time
Ask
Us
Really
Plans
Users
Things
We continue to grow, and, just like with countries like China or other countries where we are not doing particularly well, we take a really long-term approach.
Jan Koum
Other
Other Countries
Approach
Take
Long-Term
Countries
Like
Particularly
Well
Doing
Continue
Just
Where
China
Really
Grow
As long as our user base continues to grow, at some point it will have critical mass, and at some point it will tip, and at some point, people will just have to use WhatsApp because their friends are using WhatsApp.
Jan Koum
People
Will
Long
Our
Critical
Critical Mass
Some
Point
Mass
Because
Friends
WhatsApp
Just
Tip
Use
User
Using
Grow
Base
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