Whatsapp ceo biography
Whatsapp ceo biography
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Jan Koum
Ukrainian-born American entrepreneur, co-founder of WhatsApp
In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Borisovich and the family name is Kum.
Jan Borysovych Koum[a] (born February 24, 1976[1]) is a Ukrainian-American billionaire businessman and computer programmer.
He is the co-founder and former CEO of WhatsApp, a mobile messaging app which was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for US$19.3 billion. According to Forbes, he has an estimated net worth of US$15.2 billion as of October 2023, making him one of the richest people in the world.[2] Koum was ranked 44th on the Forbes' list of richest Americans in 2023 with a net worth of $15.1 billion.[3]
Early life
Yan Borysovych Koum was born in Kyiv, then in the Ukrainian SSR, on February 24, 1976 into a Jewish family.[4] He grew up in Fastiv.
In 1992, at the age of 16, he moved with his mother and grandmother to Mountain View, Ca