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I grew up in Russia. We had a telephone line, but a load of our neighbours didn't. It became a shared resource for the whole apartment complex. People would come and knock on the door and ask to call their family in another city.

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Users get unlimited 'WhatsApp'. We get happy users who don't have to worry about data. Carriers get people willing to sign up for data plans.

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What makes our product work is the way we're tightly focused on messaging and being an SMS replacement.

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The message growth rate in Brazil - it's not like a hockey stick: it's like a vertical line.

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I grew up watching Indian movies as a kid in Russia. I am quite familiar with Bollywood.

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I grew up watching 'Disco Dancer'. I watched it some 20 times as a kid.

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Nobody should have the right to eavesdrop, or you become a totalitarian state - the kind of state I escaped as a kid to come to this country where you have democracy and freedom of speech.

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If partnering with Facebook meant that we had to change our values, we wouldn't have done it.

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Our focus remains on delivering the promise of WhatsApp far and wide so that people around the world have the freedom to speak their mind without fear.

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Everybody I meet who uses 'WhatsApp', I ask them a question: 'How did you hear about it?' And they say, 'My friends, my sister or my brother, somebody I know hounded me to install WhatsApp.' We think there is more power to the network when it grows organically.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: February 24th, 1976

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