Friends, today I am going to tell you Who is owner of WhatsApp, Which Country invented WhatsApp.
Today, WhatsApp is the big name in social networking and messaging apps. Today, every mobile is incomplete without WhatsApp. Whether talking about messaging or sharing photo videos, no other app can compete with WhatsApp. Apart from messages, WhatsApp is also offering voice calls and video calls to people. That is, people are sitting in different countries talk to friends and relatives for free through WhatsApp.
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Founder of WhatsApp |
The popularity of WhatsApp can be estimated from the fact that in the initial time, WhatsApp has become 45 million users in 5 years. Jan Koum gets credited for WhatsApp success story. Read Also- What is Signal app and why Why is Elon Musk recommending it
Owner of WhatsApp
Owner of WhatsApp was Jan Koum but it was not easy for Jan Koum to achieve this position. His life was filled with struggle. But Jan never
succumbed to the challenges and today he has become famous all over the world.
WhatsApp founder story
Jan Koum was born on 24 February 1976 in Ukraine. When Jan
was 16, he was forced to leave his father and come to America with his mother
and grandmother.
He received his early education through a notebook found in
the Soviet Union, the family's financial condition was very bad. For this
reason Jan had to work in a grocery shop to sweep.
They had to wait in line for hours to get free food.
Meanwhile, his mother suffered to cancer. The mother received some help from
the government for treatment. With some money of this devotion, He bought a book
of computer networking with the help of money received from Government.
After reading, he sold it at an old bookstore. After that,
he got enrolled in a university in Silicon Valley and simultaneously started
working as a security tester in a company. Meanwhile, in the year 1997, he got
job in Yahoo. While working at Yahoo, he met a man named Brian Acton who later
also became his business partner. After working at Yahoo for 9 years, Koum said
goodbye to a job of after saving about Rs 2500,000. See Also- What is Telegram app and how it is better than WhatsApp
Success story of WhatsApp
After about 1 year, he thought of doing something new. In
January 2009, he thought of bringing such apps to the world that keep peoples
connecting to each other with a phone number, Jan Koum started working on
WhatsApp together with Acton. Both were also looking for a job in a good
company.
Both of them applied to Facebook and Twitter simultaneously,
but both got frustrated with every company. But Jan never gave up and worked
hard to launch WhatsApp.
After launching in the year 2010, he started earning $ 5000
per month from WhatsApp. In 2011, there was such a leap of success in WhatsApp
that this app started to be viral all over the world. The Facebook Company that
did not even give a job to Jan Koum showed interest in buying WhatsApp.
Jan Koum gets 19 Billion Dollars for WhatsApp deal. Today Koum
is among the world's richest capital holders, but the struggle of early days is
still in his mind. This is the reason why he chose the same place when he was
doing WhatsApp deal with Facebook. Wherever he used to wait for hours with his
mother for food.
So friends, this was the history of WhatsApp i.e. Who is the
owner of WhatsApp, Founder of WhatsApp etc. so let me tell you Whatsapp is an American
proprietary cross-platform instant messaging software.
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