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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 2014, Facebook bought it for $19 Billion.

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