The Inspiring Story of WhatsApp Co-founder Jan Koum
Would you be able to function without Whatsapp? No, neither could we. Thankfully, the communication app was founded in 2009 by Jan Koum, a Ukrainian emigrant to the United States. Koum began studying about computers when he was born into poverty. He possessed high-level capabilities at the age of 18, and in 1997, he started working for ‘Yahoo!’ as an infrastructure engineer. After purchasing his first smartphone and coming up with the idea for the application, which allows individuals to transmit messages between mobile phones over the web regardless of where they are in the world, he launched Whatsapp to tremendous acclaim. The app was just purchased by Facebook for a stunning $19 billion. His best piece of advice? "Do one thing really well."