I didnt have a computer until I was 19 - but I did have an abacus. — Jan Koum Abacus 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 hate spam, and that's what happens when you let businesses onto the network. — Jan Koum Business 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
When advertising is involved, you, the user, are the product. — Jan Koum Advertising 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 have many regrets and things I wish I could go back and change, but I have also worked hard and tried… — Jan Koum Change 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 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
Ironically, I grew up watching Indian movies as a kid in Russia. I am quite familiar with Bollywood. I grew up watching… — Jan Koum 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
'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
What makes our product work is the way we're tightly focused on messaging and being an SMS replacement. — Jan Koum Being 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 Copy Share Image
Our phones are so intimately connected to us, to our lives. Putting advertising on a device like that is a bad idea.… — Jan Koum 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
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
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
We're somewhat lucky here in the United States, where we hope that the checks and balances hold out for many years to… — Jan Koum Checks and balances Copy Share Image
Nobody should have the right to eavesdrop, or you become a totalitarian state - the kind of state I escaped as a… — Jan Koum Communication 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
We're obsessed with making sure that voice and video work well even on low-end phones. — Jan Koum Copy Share Image
I grew up watching 'Disco Dancer'. I watched it some 20 times as a kid. — Jan Koum Dance 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 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 Copy Share Image
