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WhatsApp, a name that has become synonymous with instant messaging and voice-over-IP services, was founded in 2009 by Jan Koum and Brian Acton, two individuals who had previously worked at Yahoo. The idea for WhatsApp was born out of a desire to crea

Jan Koum first pitched whatsapp back in 2007 to an online community, how cool is this?

"𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁𝘀𝗔𝗽𝗽’𝘀 $𝟭𝟵𝗕 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗹𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗗𝗶𝗱𝗻’𝘁 𝗛𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻—𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗡𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻" 𝗜𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟰, 𝗙𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗯𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁𝘀𝗔𝗽𝗽 𝗳𝗼𝗿 $𝟭𝟵 𝗕𝗶𝗹𝗹�

People laughed at Reed Hastings. Then he built Netflix. People laughed at Brian Acton. Then he built WhatsApp. People laughed at Mark Zuckerberg. Then he built Facebook. People laugh because they're paralyzed in their own dull thinking patterns. Y

Day 4 - Startup Surprise From a Simple Status App to a $19 Billion Acquisition: The WhatsApp Story When we think of billion-dollar startups, we often imagine a revolutionary idea backed by big investors from day one. But WhatsApp's journey was diffe

Jan Koum – From poverty to $19B > Born in a small village in Ukraine, grew up poor. >Migrated to the US with his mother, cleaned floors & worked as a janitor. Couldn’t even afford phone calls to his father back home. >Built WhatsApp in 2009. >In 201

WhatsApp founder Jan Koum explains why he charged $1 for the product to intentionally slow growth Sam Altman recalls: “I remember in 2011, people would say WhatsApp is never going to work because they charge a dollar and it’s a viral app and that’s

The Story of Signal! So, Signal was started by Moxie Marlinspike, a cryptographer and hacker, in 2010. He believed digital communication was dangerously unprotected, making it easy for governments, corporations, and hackers to spy on messages. Th

Coinbase founder shares the Y Combinator advice that helped Coinbase find product/market fit The first version of any product rarely works, and that’s exactly what happened with Coinbase. When Brian Armstrong, the founder, launched Coinbase, it wa

Timing importance when there was very little bandwidth on the internet there was no YouTube. when internet penetration becomes high YouTube comes into picture ? Timing is the key to opening a door.