Jan Koum Quotes

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• I want to do one thing, and do it well.
• Marketing and press kicks up dust. It gets in your eye, and then you’re not focusing on the product.
• 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…
• Advertising isnt just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. At every company that sells…
• 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…
• 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…
• A lot of what I experienced growing up in the U.S.S.R. and coming to the U.S. as an immigrant actually reflects itself in Whatsapp. Experiences…
• There were a lot of negatives, of course, but there were positives to living a life unfettered by possessions. It gave us the chance to…
• When I was a kid trying to communicate with family in the Soviet Union, it was very difficult. You had to go through the long-distance…
• When advertising is involved, you, the user, are the product.
• Utilities get out of the way. Can you imagine if you flipped a light switch and had to watch an ad before you got electricity?…

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