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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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“No Ads. No Games. No Gimmicks.” That was the founding promise of WhatsApp. When Jan Koum and Brian Acton built WhatsApp, they were obsessed with simplicity and user trust. Acton even scrawled the motto on a piece of paper and gave it to Koum as a
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🥣 From sleeping on railway station floors to building a ₹500 CR FMCG brand In 2010, Vivek couldn’t afford a ₹500 hotel room. He slept on railway platforms while pitching his product to kirana stores. Today, his brand Happilo clocks ₹500+ crore in
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From Janitor to millionaire The Inspiring Story of Ronald James Ronald James, a janitor, left behind $8 million at his death. How did he do it? Simple habits: saving consistently, living below his means, and letting compound interest work its magic.
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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
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After arriving in India, Jobs realised that he had underestimated the poverty in the country, making his journey more arduous that he could have thought, but it was his time with Neem Karoli Baba, famously known as the reincarnation of the monkey God
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"His TV broke. So he built a billion-dollar startup." In 2009, Girish Mathrubootham bought a TV. It broke during shipping. The company gave terrible service. He got angry ... and got an idea. He quit his job, started building a better customer sup
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🗣 Turkiye Gazetesi: Assad becomes the wealthiest refugee in history, transferring $135 billion to Russia before leaving Syria. 🌍💰 🔸 A familiar narrative emerges: the blame for Syria's anticipated poverty is placed on Assad's alleged transfer o
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