We hear lots of stories where grandparents go to a store and buy a smartphone so they can keep in touch with… — Jan Koum Go 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
We're not advertisement-driven, so we don't need personal databases. — Jan Koum Databases Copy Share Image
Anybody can build a company and sell the company the next day. That doesn't make you special, it doesn't make you unique,… — Jan Koum Anybody 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 Ad Copy Share Image
I hate spam, and that's what happens when you let businesses onto the network. — Jan Koum Business 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
I grew up watching 'Disco Dancer'. I watched it some 20 times as a kid. — Jan Koum Dance 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 Copy Share Image
'WhatsApp' began as a simple idea: ensuring that anyone could stay in touch with family and friends anywhere on the planet, without… — Jan Koum Family 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 Dust 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
When I was a kid trying to communicate with family in the Soviet Union, it was very difficult. You had to go… — Jan Koum Calls Copy Share Image
Communication is at the very core of our society. That's what makes us human. — Jan Koum Communication Copy Share Image
When advertising is involved, you, the user, are the product. — Jan Koum Advertising 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 Features Copy Share Image
I grew up in a society where everything you did was eavesdropped on, recorded, snitched on. I had friends when we were… — Jan Koum Anecdotes Copy Share Image
We don't really talk about our future plans. But we, at the same time, try to build things that our users ask… — Jan Koum Future 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 Able Copy Share Image
At WhatsApp, our engineers spend all their time fixing bugs, adding new features and ironing out all the little intricacies in our… — Jan Koum Adding Copy Share Image
Advertising isn't just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. At every… — Jan Koum Ads Copy Share Image
I didn't have a computer until I was 19 - but I did have an abacus. — Jan Koum Computer Copy Share Image
