INVENTOR BIOGRAPHY

Jan Koum the inventor whatsapp

Jan Koum was born on February 24, 1976 in an area called Fastiv part Kiev, Ukraine. Jan Koum is known as one of the founders of WhatsApp. Jan Koum's father works as a construction manager and his mother is only a housewife. Jan Koum comes from a family of Jewish descent. The area where Jan Koum is attached to every facility, such as electricity, is very limited. Even to bathe they have to queue up in the public baths.

The Jan Koum family decided to move home to America in 1990 to avoid conflicts in their occupied territories. They moved when Jan Koum was 16 and living in Mountain View, USA. There, he lives with his mother and grandmother, his father is still in Ukraine, and will soon follow them. Koum and his father rarely communicate over the phone because they avoid wiretapping by the Ukrainian government. Koum with his mother then struggled to survive in America. But dear, Jan Koum's father died in 1997 while he was still in Ukraine.

When Jan Koum moved to the United States, she was proficient in English so she was easy to study in America. He studied self-taught computer networks and even joined the grub hacker known as w00w00 while at school. Graduated from school, he continued his education by entering at San Jose University. To meet the needs of life and college, Jan Koum worked as a computer security system testers at Ernst & Young.In 1997, he met with Brian Acton, a Yahoo employee who became his close friend. Jan Koum Yahoo! Brian Acton and Brian Acton Seven years working for Yahoo, Jan Koum and Brian Acton then decided to resign from Yahoo in 2007.

After that, Jan Koum and Brian Acton tried to apply for a job on Facebook, but both were rejected by Facebook. Then in 2009, when Iphone became famous, Jan Koum bought the phone. He is interested in seeing the collection of contacts on the iphone and app store. He realized the potential for app store app opportunities that immediately gave him the idea to create an app that could display profile messages on phone contacts on the iphone. That's the idea that led to the creation of WhatsApp.

Accompanied with a sense of doubt Jan Koum continues to develop the making of applications. Apple then came up with the help of push notifications in 2009, this then gave way for Jan Koum to modify the application made so that when the user WhatsApp change the status of the application will automatically spread on the network.Then WhatsApp converted into paid apps in 2010 and they managed to earn revenue of 5000 dollars in the first month. This then made many other investors invest in WhatsApp like Sequoia Capital which injects $ 8 Million.And in the end WhatsApp Purchased by Facebook and Jan Koum Become the New Rich