Inspirational Story Founder of the Whatsapp Application

Inspirational Story Founder of the Whatsapp Application


WhatsApp is currently known as one of the most widely used instant messaging applications in the world. The heavy struggle must be passed by the WhatsApp Application Inventor Jan Koum where before he became a billionaire he was a vagrant but his name shot to become a new billionaire when his application named Whatsapp was bought by Facebook at a phenomenal price of 16 billion dollars ASJan Koum was born on February 24, 1976 in an area called Fastiv part of Kiev, Ukraine. Jan Koum's father works as a construction manager and his mother is only a housewife.

Jan Koum is from a Jewish family. The area where Jan Koum lives is very worrying because all facilities are very limited such as electricity. Even for bathing they have to queue in a public bath.

Living in a country where politics is often turbulent is not easy for Jan Koum, moreover they are of Jewish descent so they are often cautious.

Moving to America

Because of the increasing political turmoil and the rise of the anti-Jewish movement in Ukraine, Jan Koum's family decided to move to the United States in 1990. They moved when Jan Koum was 16 years old and lived in the Mountain View area of ​​the United States.

Become a Sweeper

In Biography Jan Koum it was known that he lived there with his mother and grandmother, his father was still in Ukraine, and would follow them. But unfortunately, Jan Koum's father died in 1997 while still in Ukraine.

Koum and his father rarely communicated by telephone because they avoided tapping by the Ukrainian government. Jan Koum and his mother then struggled to survive in America.
Ms. Koum then tried to work as a babysitter and Koum helped her mother by becoming a shop sweeper to meet their needs. Even so they are still very lacking.

Life Like Homelessness

Because of the poor life of Jan Koum at that time, he ate by relying on free food rations from the government for homeless people or homeless people. He also sometimes sleeps in public places only on the ground and roofs of the sky. All kinds of work he tried when he first moved to America just to make a living.When Jan Koum moved to the United States, he was proficient in English so he was easy to go to school in America.

In Jan Koum's Biography it is known that in his school he was known as a naughty child because he was very difficult to adjust and often involved in fights, even so he was a student who was intelligent and very fond of computer programming that he taught himself from used books.

Learning Computer Self-taught

He learned about self-taught computer networks and even joined the hacker grub known as the w00w00 when at school. Graduating from school, he then continued his education by entering San Jose University. To fulfill his life needs and tuition fees, Jan Koum later worked as a tester for computer security systems at Ernst & Young

Accepted to work at Yahoo

In 1997, he met Brian Acton, a Yahoo employee who later became a close friend. Armed with knowledge about computers which was quite self-taught, Jan Koum then tried to apply for a job at Yahoo on the advice of Brian Acton and he was later accepted. But in 2000, Jan Koum's life trial when his mother died of cancer he suffered. On the stay of his parents, Jan Koum then lived with his grandmother.

Together with Brian Acton, Jan Koum witnessed the rise and fall of Yahoo, he worked there as a programmer and handled advertising projects at Yahoo.

While working at Yahoo, Jan Koum also went to college. But he decided to Drop Out or quit his campus and focus on working after being scolded by Yahoo's then CEO David Filo.

Seven years working at Yahoo then made Jan Koum with Brian Acton decide to resign in 2007 from Yahoo

 Denied Working on Facebook

After that, Jan Koum and Brian Acton then tried to apply for a job on Facebook but they were both rejected by Facebook owned by Mark Zuckerberg.
The history of whatsapp was created began in 2009. When the iPhone was experiencing fame and Jan Koum bought it, he was then attracted to the collection of contacts on the iphone and also on the app store. He saw the great potential of the app store application on the iPhone which then gave him the idea of ​​creating an application that can display status on telephone contacts on the iphone.

Creating Whatsapp

That idea then encouraged the creation of the WhatsApp application. Jan Koum has a friend named Alex Fishman and then he tells the idea to him.

Hearing this idea, Alex Fishman then introduced Jan Koum with Igor Solomennikov, an Iphone application developer.

From his introduction to Igor, Jan Koum then succeeded in realizing the idea and then created an application which he later named WhatsApp.

From there he later founded the California-based WhatsApp Inc. company in February 2009. Jan Koum spent much of his time developing the application.

Even though the WhatsApp application still crashes it can be said to be imperfect and still in the initial version. Even when launched, the application was only downloaded around 250 people, and most of them were friends from Jan Koum himself.

The slow development of WhatsApp made Jan Koum almost give up. From there arose Jan Koum's intention to stop the development of the application and intend to work anything.

When he almost gave up, his good friend, Brian Acton, then told him to continue to develop the WhatsApp application made by Jan Koum and give it a few months to see the application's great potential.

Accompanied by doubts Jan Koum continued to develop his application. Apple then came up with the help of push notifications in 2009.

This then gave way for Jan Koum to modify his application so that when WhatsApp users change the status in the application it will automatically announce it on the network.

Rapid Development of WhatsApp

The initial version of WhatsApp is only as a status update on telephone contacts on the Iphone. Then Jan Koum released WhatsApp v2.0 which was equipped with an instant messaging feature which then managed to increase the number of users of the application to 250 thousand users.

The rival of the WhatsApp application was only Blackberry Messaging (BBM), but seeing the limited use of BBM only on Blackberry phones, Jan Koum continued to develop the application.

Brian Acton then helped Jan Koum by finding investors to fund the development of the WhatsApp application. As a result, the funds collected amounted to 250 thousand dollars from former Yahoo employees.

And officially Acton then joined Jan Koum to develop the WhatsApp application. WhatsApp then continued to be developed by Jan Koum by successfully launching the photo sending feature in 2009 on the iPhone, besides that it also released WhatsApp for other devices such as Android and Blackberry.

Then WhatsApp was changed to a paid application in 2010 and they managed to earn 5000 dollars in revenue in the first month.

This then made other investors come to invest in WhatsApp like Sequoia Capital which injected funds in the amount of 8 million dollars.

Entering 2011, WhatsApp made by Jan Koum made it into the top 20 popular applications on the App Store and once again Sequoia Capital again injected 50 million dollars into WhatsApp and made WhatsApp value soar to 1.5 billion dollars.

This then made the Facebook company seduce Jan Koum to sell WhatsApp, but was rejected by Jan Koum. Continuing to develop later in 2013, WhatsApp succeeded in having around 200 million active users.

WhatsApp Purchased by Facebook

Google and Facebook then scrambled to acquire WhatsApp, which was growing rapidly. Until then in 2013, Jan Koum and Brian Acton agreed to sell WhatsApp to Facebook at a value of 19 Millar Dollars.

Become a New Rich Person

Facebook's acquisition of Whatsapp made Jan Koum and Brian Acton as new rich people thanks to their struggle to develop the WhatsApp application.

Jan Koum himself after the application was successfully purchased by Facebook, his wealth jumped dramatically by 6.8 billion dollars or around 80 trillion rupiah. And in 2015, his wealth rose by 7.9 billion dollars, or around 109 trillion rupiah according to Forbes magazine.

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