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Top 10 Facts about WhatsApp Founder Jan Koum

March 6, 2014February 19, 2014 by Daily Entertainer
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Meet Jan Koum, the Whatsapp co-founder recently turned  billionaire after Facebook bought Whatsapp for $19 billion, the deal was close on February 19, 2014, FB will pay $4 billion in cash and the remaining $12 billion in Facebook shares; plus an additional $3 billion in restricted stock units to be granted to WhatsApp’s founders and employees that will vest over four years subsequent to closing. We put up TOP 10 interesting FACTS about Jan Koum, that you really must know about.

#1 His full name name is Jan Boris Koum

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#2 Koum was born into a Jewish home in Kiev, Ukraine on February 24, 1976

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#3 In 1992 when he was 16 when he moved to the United States with his mother and grandmother, his father who stayed behind ran a government construction company

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#4 Standing at 6’2” with a dark, unshaven look, Koum was living in government-assisted housing and collected Food stamps.

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#5 He had his first computer  when he was 19.

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#6 He was studying math and computer science at San Jose State University, until he dropped out.

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#7 His first job was bagging groceries, he also worked at Fry’s Electronics, ISP and at Ernst & Young where he conducted computer security audits.

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#8 In 1998 got a job interview at Yahoo! after meeting David Filo at an Apache security conference, Koum became security and operations engineering at Yahoo! Inc.

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#9 In 2004 he was named Infrastructure Engineering at Yahoo! until he left along Brian Acton  in 2007.

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#10 Jan Koum and Acton created Whatsapp in February, 2009, FYI As far as we know Koum is Single!

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You can find Jan Koum on Facebook here and  Twitter here

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