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
I only have one idea, that is WhatsApp, and I am going to continue to focus on that. I have no plans… — Jan Koum Am 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
Facebook, Google, Apple, Yahoo - there's a common theme. None of these companies ever sold. By staying independent, they were able to… — Jan Koum Able 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 Ads 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 difficult part for us is adding features without making the product more complicated. — Jan Koum Complicated Copy Share Image
We continue to grow, and, just like with countries like China or other countries where we are not doing particularly well, we… — Jan Koum China 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
We're obsessed with making sure that voice and video work well even on low-end phones. — Jan Koum Even Copy Share Image
We're not interested in bombarding our users with, 'Hey, play this game, play this game, play this game.' It gets annoying, it… — Jan Koum Annoying 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
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
You don't have to give us your name and we don't ask for your email address. We don't know your birthday. We… — Jan Koum Addresses Copy Share Image
People appreciate a good product, a stable system. They want to communicate easily and use a product that just works. — Jan Koum Appreciate 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
Ironically, I grew up watching Indian movies as a kid in Russia. I am quite familiar with Bollywood. I grew up watching… — Jan Koum Am 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
The argument can be made: Maybe you want to trust the government, but you shouldn't because you don't know where things are… — Jan Koum Argument 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
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
