Everybody I meet who uses ‘WhatsApp’, I ask them a question: ‘How did you hear about it?’ And they say, ‘My friends, my sister or my brother, somebody I know hounded me to install WhatsApp.’ We think there is more power to the network when it grows organically. Jan Koum Read Quote
Ironically, I grew up watching Indian movies as a kid in Russia. I am quite familiar with Bollywood. I grew up watching ‘Disco Dancer;’ I watched it some 20 times as a kid. Jan Koum Read Quote
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. Jan Koum Read Quote
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. Jan Koum Read Quote
I grew up in Russia. We had a telephone line, but a load of our neighbours didn’t. It became a shared resource for the whole apartment complex. People would come and knock on the door and ask to call their family in another city. Jan Koum Read Quote
We hear lots of stories where grandparents go to a store and buy a smartphone so they can keep in touch with kids and grandkids. Jan Koum Read Quote
Our team has always believed that neither cost and distance should ever prevent people from connecting with their friends and loved ones, and won’t rest until everyone, everywhere is empowered with that opportunity. Jan Koum Read Quote
Everybody who wants to join ‘WhatsApp’, we’ll go out of our way to build a really awesome client for them. Jan Koum Read Quote
