Top 20 quotes from Jan Koum

Top 20 quotes from Jan Koum

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ABOUT JAN KOUM

Jan Koum is an American internet entrepreneur with an

estimated net worth of $6.7 billion as of May 2015,

according to Forbes. He is best recognized as the co-

founder and chief executive officer of the mobile

messaging application “WhatsApp”. In February 2014, the application was acquired by Facebook for $19 billion.

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Jan Koum


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


I didn't have a computer until I was 19 - but I

did have an abacus.

Jan Koum


Communication is at the very core of our

society. That's what makes us human.

Jan Koum


Marketing and press kicks up dust. It gets in

your eye, and then you're not focusing on the

product.

Jan Koum


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


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


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


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


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


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


I want to do one thing and do it well.

Jan Koum


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


I grew up in Russia. We had a telephone line,

but a load of our neighbours didn't. It became

a shared resource for the whole apartment

complex. People would come and knock on

the door and ask to call their family in another

city.

Jan Koum


A lot of what I experienced growing up in the

U.S.S.R. and coming to the U.S. as an

immigrant actually reflects itself in Whatsapp.

Experiences from our youth shape what we do

later in life.

Jan Koum


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


Utilities get out of the way. Can you imagine if

you flipped a light switch and had to watch

an ad before you got electricity? Can you

imagine if you turned on a faucet and had to

watch an ad before the water came out?

Jan Koum


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


No one wakes up excited to see more

advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking

about the ads they'll see tomorrow.

Jan Koum


When advertising is involved, you, the user, are

the product.

Jan Koum


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Top 20 quotes from Jan Koum

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