What makes our product work is the way we're tightly focused on messaging and being an SMS replacement. — Jan Koum Being Copy Share Image
I have many regrets and things I wish I could go back and change, but I have also worked hard and tried… — Jan Koum Change Copy Share Image
If partnering with Facebook meant that we had to change our values, we wouldn't have done it. — Jan Koum Change Copy Share Image
In terms of security and privacy, what people care about the most is the privacy of their messages. — Jan Koum Care Copy Share Image
I grew up in a country where I remember my parents not being able to have a conversation on the phone. The… — Jan Koum Copy Share Image
A lot of my time, effort, and focus is spent on 'WhatsApp'. And that, to me, is more valuable and rewarding than… — Jan Koum Effort Copy Share Image
WhatsApp's extremely high user engagement and rapid growth are driven by the simple, powerful and instantaneous messaging capabilities we provide. — Jan Koum Growth Copy Share Image
Everybody who wants to join 'WhatsApp', we'll go out of our way to build a really awesome client for them. — Jan Koum Awesome Copy Share Image
Our team has always believed that neither cost and distance should ever prevent people from connecting with their friends and loved ones,… — Jan Koum Copy Share Image
Utilities get out of the way. Can you imagine if you flipped a light switch and had to watch an ad before… — Jan Koum Copy Share Image
People need to differentiate us from companies like Yahoo! and Facebook that collect your data and have it sitting on their servers.… — Jan Koum Data Copy Share Image
Our phones are so intimately connected to us, to our lives. Putting advertising on a device like that is a bad idea.… — Jan Koum Copy Share Image
Everybody I meet who uses 'WhatsApp', I ask them a question: 'How did you hear about it?' And they say, 'My friends,… — Jan Koum Brother Copy Share Image
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… — Jan Koum Copy Share Image
As long as our user base continues to grow, at some point it will have critical mass, and at some point it… — Jan Koum Friends Copy Share Image
There were a lot of negatives, of course, but there were positives to living a life unfettered by possessions. It gave us… — Jan Koum Chance Copy Share Image
People have SMS, right? It stinks. It's a dead technology, like a fax machine left over from the Seventies, sitting there as… — Jan Koum Computers Copy Share Image
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 Communication Copy Share Image
Our focus remains on delivering the promise of WhatsApp far and wide so that people around the world have the freedom to… — Jan Koum Around the world Copy Share Image
We hear lots of stories where grandparents go to a store and buy a smartphone so they can keep in touch with… — Jan Koum Copy Share Image
No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they'll see tomorrow. — Jan Koum Copy Share Image
In some ways, you can think of end-to-end encryption as honoring what the past looked like. — Jan Koum Encryption Copy Share Image
Pavel Durov only knows how to copy great products like Facebook and 'WhatsApp'; he never had and will never have original ideas. — Jan Koum Copy Share Image
I only have one idea, that is WhatsApp, and I am going to continue to focus on that. I have no plans… — Jan Koum Copy Share Image
I had so much fun in early days learning about networking, security, scalability and other geeky stuff. — Jan Koum Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
The message growth rate in Brazil - it's not like a hockey stick: it's like a vertical line. — Jan Koum Brazil Copy Share Image
The difficult part for us is adding features without making the product more complicated. — Jan Koum Copy Share Image
Marketing and press kicks up dust. It gets in your eye, and then you’re not focusing on the product. — Jan Koum Copy Share Image
A lot of times, people start out with a lot of good ideas, but then they don't execute. They lose the purity… — Jan Koum Circles Copy Share Image
If you look at firms like General Electric or other large companies, they don't just do one thing; they do many different… — Jan Koum Business Copy Share Image
It's important for people to have freedom to use whatever product they want. We have no problems with other people using other… — Jan Koum Freedom Copy Share Image
When I was a kid trying to communicate with family in the Soviet Union, it was very difficult. You had to go… — Jan Koum Copy Share Image
