We want to do one thing and do it really well. For us, that’s communications between people who are friends and relatives. Jan Koum Read Quote
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. Jan Koum Read Quote
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. Jan Koum Read Quote
The argument can be made: Maybe you want to trust the government, but you shouldn’t because you don’t know where things are going to go in the future. Jan Koum Read Quote
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. Jan Koum Read Quote
People have SMS, right? It stinks. It’s a dead technology, like a fax machine left over from the Seventies, sitting there as a cash cow for carriers. Jan Koum Read Quote
If partnering with Facebook meant that we had to change our values, we wouldn’t have done it. Jan Koum Read Quote
