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No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they'll see tomorrow.

~Jan Koum

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We've taken SMS technology for consumers and improved it.

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Our team has always believed that neither cost and distance should ever prevent people from connecting with their friends and loved ones, and won't rest until everyone, everywhere is empowered with that opportunity.

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As long as our user base continues to grow, at some point it will have critical mass, and at some point it will tip, and at some point, people will just have to use WhatsApp because their friends are using WhatsApp.

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People have SMS, right? It stinks. It's a dead technology, like a fax machine left over from the Seventies, sitting there as a cash cow for carriers.

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Marketing and press kicks up dust. It gets in your eye, and then you're not focusing on the product.

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I only have one idea, that is WhatsApp, and I am going to continue to focus on that. I have no plans to build any other ideas.

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Ironically, I grew up watching Indian movies as a kid in Russia. I am quite familiar with Bollywood. I grew up watching 'Disco Dancer;' I watched it some 20 times as a kid.

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I didn't have a computer until I was 19 - but I did have an abacus.

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I grew up in a society where everything you did was eavesdropped on, recorded, snitched on. I had friends when we were kids getting into trouble for telling anecdotes about Communist leaders.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: February 24th, 1976

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