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If you are a WhatsApp user, then you must be know Jan Koum, a man behind the messaging app. He, along with his friend Brian Acton, founded WhatsApp in 2010 before it was eventually acquired by Facebook in 2014 to make Jan Koum a new billionaire from the the internet industry
Koum's life journey was never as easy we seen these days. Before got her success, Koum lived a tough life that we never knew. There is one thing that Koum really believe, he have to focus on one thing and concern on it to make it grow big. That thought put him to a place that he (may be) never imagined
WhatsApp is the biggest thing coming from Jan Koum's simple thought to focus on one idea. According to an article on WikiPedia, the messaging app had one billion users by February 2016. And sure, the number will always raising
If you are a fan of Jan Koum, then you have to understand Koum's thought by reading the following quotes from him
Do one thing, and do it well
We focus a lot on the quality of experience, speed, reliability. It’s not sexy from a lot of people’s perspective, it’s not glitzy in the feature set, but it’s what people come to rely on
Build a sustainable company that’s here for the next 100 years
No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they'll see tomorrow.
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.
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.
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.
Communication is at the very core of our society. That's what makes us human.
Marketing and press kicks up dust. It gets in your eye, and then you're not focusing on the product.
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.
I didn't have a computer until I was 19 - but I did have an abacus.
Anybody can build a company and sell the company the next day. That doesn't make you special, it doesn't make you unique, it doesn't make you all that great.
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.
I grew up in a country where advertising doesn't exist.
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.
When I was a kid trying to communicate with family in the Soviet Union, it was very difficult. You had to go through the long-distance phone companies like MCI, which were difficult to navigate and expensive to make calls through.
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