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 glitzy in the feature set, but it’s what people come to rely on. — Jan Koum 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 Copy Share
I only have one idea, that is WhatsApp, and I am going to continue to focus on that. I have no plans to build… — Jan Koum Copy Share
A lot of times, people start out with a lot of good ideas, but then they don't execute. They lose the purity of their… — Jan Koum Copy Share
Facebook, Google, Apple, Yahoo - there's a common theme. None of these companies ever sold. By staying independent, they were able to build a… — Jan Koum Copy Share
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
I had so much fun in early days learning about networking, security, scalability and other geeky stuff. — Jan Koum Copy Share
The difficult part for us is adding features without making the product more complicated. — Jan Koum Copy Share
We continue to grow, and, just like with countries like China or other countries where we are not doing particularly well, we take a… — Jan Koum Copy Share
It's important for people to have freedom to use whatever product they want. We have no problems with other people using other apps, so… — Jan Koum Copy Share
We're obsessed with making sure that voice and video work well even on low-end phones. — Jan Koum Copy Share
We're not interested in bombarding our users with, 'Hey, play this game, play this game, play this game.' It gets annoying, it gets in… — Jan Koum Copy Share
Everybody I meet who uses 'WhatsApp', I ask them a question: 'How did you hear about it?' And they say, 'My friends, my sister… — Jan Koum Copy Share
