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The move will let the social networking giant tout higher user engagement to advertisers WhatsApp has so far been a great experience for billions of users globally where there are no ads in-between chats, no distractions like promoted posts and in-app pop-ups, but integration with the rest of Facebook family of apps may mar the beauty of this end-to-end-encrypted mobile messaging platfo
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What's up, Jan Koum?
How would you feel if you have created something that 25% of the world uses, but not many people know about you?
This post is about a Ukrainian Jew, who, in 1992 at the age of 16, emigrates to USA with his mother, survives on social security, works as a cleaner, somehow gets into college, drops-out, fails to settle into a job, quits, creates an app, builds a company, makes history by being acquired for a record USD 19 billion and becomes a billionaire himself.
This post is about Jan Koum, the creator of WhatsApp!
Over 2 billion people the world over use WhatsApp, including my 65-75 year old parents and in-laws. Funnily, hardly anybody knows much about Jan Koum! So, here are a few facts about him.
His birthday is 24th February. Guess who else was born on 24th February? Yes, Steve Jobs. Guess who else? Yours truly!
At the age of 21, he drops out of college, joins Yahoo!, befriends Brian Acton (who co-founds WhatsApp with him in future), works in Yahoo!for 9 years, gets bored, takes an year off, travels to South America with Brian Acton, returns and applies to work for Facebook, gets rejected, buys an I Phone, is impressed with its new concept - App Store, and decides to create WhatsApp. He chose that name because it sounded like "What's up?"
WhatsApp was also born on 24th February, 2009. Wow!!
Within three months, WhatsApp looked like being a flop, with no takers. Then Apple came up with push notifications for all its apps. So, Koum changed WhatsApp to ping users when they receive a message. Soon, it became a hit. By December 2013, it had 400 million users.
In February 2014, Mark Zuckerberg, founder-CEO of Facebook, asked Koum to have dinner at his home, and formally proposed Koum a deal to join Facebook's board. 10 days later, on February 19th, Facebook announced that it was acquiring WhatsApp for US$19 billion, a value about one-tenth that of Ukraine's GDP at that time!
So basically, Jan Koum, penniless immigrant at 16, jobless at 30, became a billionaire at 37. Today, he is worth USD 10 billion.
Mark Zuckerberg's worldwide Facebook apology tour hits a snag in the EU
Mark Zuckerberg’s worldwide Facebook apology tour hits a snag in the EU
“How many times can you say you’re sorry before we stop caring?” Ian Sherr and Erin Carson report for CNET. “If Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s globe-trotting apology tour over privacy violations, election meddling and allowing hate speech to flourish on Facebook is any sign, the answer is not that many.”
“Zuckerberg said he was sorry yet again on Tuesday when he admitted to the…
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Whatsapp Success स्टोरी Brian Acton और Jan Koum 2021
Whatsapp Success स्टोरी Brian Acton और Jan Koum 2021
दो दोस्त जिन्होंने रच दिया इतिहास। आज हम बात करेंगे Whatsapp और दो दोस्तों की जिन्होंने रच दिया इतिहास, दोस्तों यह कहानी है। दो दोस्तों की Brian Acton और Jan Koum जिन्होंने अपनी काबलियत के दम पर कुछ कर दिखाया। Brian Acton नाम तो शायद आपने कभी ना कभी सुना ही होगा। अगर नहीं सुना है तो कोई बात नहीं मै तुम्हे बताता हूँ इसे पढ़ने के बाद आप उनके बारे में जरूर जान जाएंग, आज सभी के पास ज्यादातर Android…
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On a growth tear, DuckDuckGo reveals it picked up $100M in secondary investment last year
Privacy tech continues cooking on gas. To wit: Non-tracking search engine DuckDuckGo has just revealed that it beefed up its balance sheet at the back end of last year with $100 million+ in “mainly secondary investment” — from a mix of existing and new investors. Its blog post name-checks Omers Ventures, Thrive, GP Bullhound, Impact America […]
https://unlock.zone/blog/android-news/on-a-growth-tear-duckduckgo-reveals-it-picked-up-100m-in-secondary-investment-last-year/
