WhatsApp Founder Story

January Koum , founder of WhatsApp , born and raised in the Ukraine from a relatively poor family . At the age of 16 years , he was desperate to move to America , in pursuit of what we know as the " American Dream " .


At age 17, he could only eat from government rations . He almost became a bum . Sleep roofed skies , paved ground . To survive , he worked as a janitor supermarket . "Life is so bitter " , Koum thought .
Her life when her mother was diagnosed with increasingly steep cancer . They survive with only modest health benefits . Koum and studying at San Jose University . But then he chose to drop out , because it prefers to learn programming autodidact .
Because of his skills as a programmer , Jan. Koum hired as an engineer at Yahoo! . He worked there for 10 years . In place of that, he was best friends with Brian Acton .
Both make the WhatsApp application in 2009 , after resigned from Yahoo . Both had applied to the rising popularity of Facebook at the time, but diitolak . Facebook may now deeply regret ever rejecting their application .
After the official WhatsApp Facebook purchased at a price of 19 billion dollars ( about Rp 224 trillion ) a few days ago , Jan. Koum perform the ritual touching . He came to the place where he used to be, at the age of 17 years , every morning to stand in line to receive food rations from the government . She leaned her head against the wall where he used to stand in line . Remembering the hard times , which even for a meal he did not have any money .. pelan2 , tears melted . He never thought his company was bought by the highest value .
He then recalled that his mother had died of cancer . His mother is willing to sew a shirt for him to save . " No money , kiddo ... " . January Koum stunned . He regrets never be able to preach the happy news to his mother .