Jan Koum
- January 4, 2024
- Entrepreneur
Quick Facts
| Full Name | Jan Koum |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
| Date Of Birth | Feb 24, 1976(1976-02-24) |
| Age | 48 |
| Birthplace | Kyiv |
| Country | Ukraine |
| Horoscope | Aquarius |
Jan Koum Biography
| Name | Jan Koum |
| Birthday | Feb 24 |
| Birth Year | 1976 |
| Place Of Birth | Kyiv |
| Birth Country | Ukraine |
| Birth Sign | Aquarius |
Jan Koum is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on February 24, 1976 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Ukrainian-American developer, who founded WhatsApp in 2009 with a partner. He was a Ukrainian- American developer who co-founded WhatsApp in 2009. His estimated net worth is over $7.2 Billion.
He was a member, in 1996, of the hacking group w00w00 with Napster founder Shawn Fnning.
Koum was born in Kiev, Ukraine, then in the Soviet Union. He is of Jewish origin. He grew up in Fastiv, outside Kiev, and moved with his mother and grandmother to Mountain View, California in 1992, where a social support program helped the family to get a small two-bedroom apartment, at the age of
- His father had intended to join the family later, but he never left Ukraine, and died in 1997. Koum and his mother remained in touch with his father until his death. At first Koum’s mother worked as a babysitter, while he himself worked as a cleaner at a grocery store. His mother died in 2000 after a long battle with cancer.
In February 1996, a restraining order was granted against Koum in state court in San Jose, California. An ex-girlfriend detailed incidents in which she said Koum verbally and physically threatened her. In October 2014, Koum said about the restraining order, “I am ashamed of the way I acted and ashamed that my behavior forced her to take legal action”.
In 1992, he moved to America with his grandmother and mother. He had hoped to be with them when his father died in 1997 in Ukraine.
Jan Koum Net Worth
| Net Worth | $10 Billion |
| Source Of Income | Entrepreneur |
| House | Living in own house. |
Jan Koum is one of the richest Entrepreneur from Ukraine. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jan Koum 's net worth $10 Billion. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
After graduating from San Jose State University, he left to work at Yahoo! He is an infrastructure engineer.
Facebook purchased WhatsApp for $19 Billion in 2014.
Jan Koum (Ukrainian: Ян Кум ; born February 24, 1976) is a Ukrainian American entrepreneur and computer programmer. He is the co-founder and was the CEO of WhatsApp, a mobile messaging application which was acquired by Facebook Inc. in February 2014 for US$19.3 billion.
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In January 2009, Koum bought an iPhone and realized that the then seven-month- old App Store was about to spawn a whole new industry of apps. He visited his friend Alex Fishman and the two talked for hours about Koum’s idea for an app over tea at Fishman’s kitchen counter. Koum almost immediately chose the name WhatsApp because it sounded like “what’s up”, and a week later on his birthday, February 24, 2009, he incorporated WhatsApp Inc. in California.
Facts & Trivia
Jan Ranked on the list of most popular Entrepreneur. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Ukraine. Jan Koum celebrates birthday on February 24 of every year.
In November 2014, Koum donated one million dollars to The FreeBSD Foundation, and close to $556 million to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) the same year. In December 2016, Jan Koum donated another 500 thousand dollars to The FreeBSD Foundation.
Where is Jan Koum now?
Today, he has a net worth of $12 billion, has seemingly retired, and seems to be spending his time amassing a vast and incredibly expensive portfolio of real estate in California. Over just the last two years, Koum has bought $400 million worth of real estate, mostly in Malibu.
Was Jan Koum poor?
Living in Poverty Jan Koum was born in 1976 to a Jewish family in Kyiv, Ukraine. His father worked in construction, while his mother stayed at home with her son. As a child, Koum experienced the negative effects of growing up in a Communist regime, which deeply influenced his strong commitment to privacy protection.
Who is the real founder of WhatsApp?
WhatsApp was founded by Brian Acton and Jan Koum , former employees of Yahoo!. Initially, WhatsApp was not intended to be a messaging app.
Why is Jan Koum successful?
In 2005, Jan Koum became a billionaire. He made a whopping 22-billion-dollar profit when he sold his mobile app to Facebook. Although Jan founded WhatsApp, Mark Zuckerberg currently owns both WhatsApp and Facebook.
How much WhatsApp earn per day?
The goal is to have people communicate directly with their banks, airlines, etc. over the app, while the businesses pick up the bill previously paid through subscriptions.” With more than 400 million users in India alone, in 2019, WhatsApp reported revenues of Rs 6.84 crore in India, with a profit of ₹57 lakh.