WhatsApp App Inventor Jan Koum You Should Know
Almost all of people are using WhatsApp for communication without knowing the tough struggle that is passed by the WhatsApp App Inventor, Jan Koum. Before he became a billionaire he was a bum. His name dashed into a new billionaire when his application WhatsApp was bought by Facebook worth $16 billion. He lived in a hard life just by relying on subsidies and allotments from the local government. Every day he had to queue for a free meal and his bed sometimes was on the roadside. He did not live in the apartment like others American.
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For Living Jan Koum worked as cleaning services in a supermarket to fulfill his daily life. Jan Koum was a person who never gave up although his mother at that time was also diagnosed with cancer. He determined to continue his studies at San Jose University while looking for additional income that might be enough for him to survive as well as his college tuition. While studying at San Jose University, he was very fond of learning programming but at that time he was in a drop out position. Because of programming is his passion, he learned autodidact about programming.
Jan Koum's skill in programming was getting better every day. Although his status was as drop out student and without a diploma, he determined and desperate to apply for work at Yahoo. Good news came, Yahoo accepted him to be an employee and Jan Koum's position at that time was an engineer at Yahoo. For 10 years he worked there, his skill was growing rapidly. Accidentally, he met Brian Acton (one of the founders of WhatsApp) who later became a partner in making applications WhatsApp. Together with Brian Acton, Jan Koum then decided to resign from Yahoo.
From Yahoo, they then tried to apply for work at Facebook but Facebook did not accept them. Because of the rejected by Facebook, Jan Koum and Brian Acton tried to design and create a phenomenal WhatsApp message application. Today, Jan Koum's WhatsApp app is the most used in the world and beat the blackberry messenger. Because of the popularity and the successfulness of WhatsApp application, making Facebook acquired the app that was made by Jan Koum and Brian Acton with a fantastic amount $16 billion. Jan Koum struggled with an eager determination to change his destiny from a homeless man became a new millionaire.