App Quote by Pavel Durov

WhatsApp has a consistent history - from zero encryption at its inception to a succession of security issues strangely suitable for surveillance purposes.

— Pavel Durov

For WhatsApp to become a privacy-oriented service, it has to risk losing entire markets and clashing with authorities in their home country.

— Pavel Durov

WhatsApp deliberately obfuscates their apps' binaries to make sure no one is able to study them thoroughly.

— Pavel Durov

At WhatsApp, our engineers spend all their time fixing bugs, adding new features and ironing out all the little intricacies in our task of…

— Jan Koum

It's important for people to have freedom to use whatever product they want. We have no problems with other people using other apps, so…

— Jan Koum

If you get a WhatsApp message, you're probably going to open it. That's the interesting thing.

— Harper Reed

WhatsApp provides phone-number-based messaging, and people asked, 'Isn't that what SMS is?' Yes, but SMS is expensive, antiquated, and what WhatsApp did was modernize…

— Brian Acton

As long as our user base continues to grow, at some point it will have critical mass, and at some point it will tip,…

— Jan Koum

Everybody who wants to join 'WhatsApp', we'll go out of our way to build a really awesome client for them.

— Jan Koum

WhatsApp's extremely high user engagement and rapid growth are driven by the simple, powerful and instantaneous messaging capabilities we provide.

— Jan Koum

Looking back, there hasn't been a single day in WhatsApp's 10 year journey when this service was secure.

— Pavel Durov

Users get unlimited 'WhatsApp'. We get happy users who don't have to worry about data. Carriers get people willing to sign up for data…

— Jan Koum