When advertising is involved, you, the user, are the product. — Jan Koum Advertising Copy Share Image
I didn't have a computer until I was 19 - but I did have an abacus. — Jan Koum Abacus Copy Share Image
I grew up watching 'Disco Dancer'. I watched it some 20 times as a kid. — Jan Koum Dance Copy Share Image
We're obsessed with making sure that voice and video work well even on low-end phones. — 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
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
In some ways, you can think of end-to-end encryption as honoring what the past looked like. — Jan Koum Encryption 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I grew up in Russia. We had a telephone line, but a load of our neighbours didn't. It became a shared resource… — Jan Koum 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 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 Copy Share Image
Communication is at the very core of our society. That's what makes us human. — Jan Koum Communication Copy Share Image
I didnt have a computer until I was 19 - but I did have an abacus. — Jan Koum Abacus Copy Share Image
I hate spam, and that's what happens when you let businesses onto the network. — Jan Koum Business 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
The difficult part for us is adding features without making the product more complicated. — Jan Koum Copy Share Image
