Jan Koum Quotes
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Everybody who wants to join 'WhatsApp', we'll go out of our way to build a really awesome client for them.
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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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Experiences from our youth shape what we do later in life.
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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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I had so much fun in early days learning about networking, security, scalability and other geeky stuff.
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In some ways, you can think of end-to-end encryption as honoring what the past looked like.
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The argument can be made: Maybe you want to trust the government, but you shouldn't because you don't know where things are going to go in the future.
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Clearly, you can't believe everything you read in the press.
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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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People need to differentiate us from companies like Yahoo! and Facebook that collect your data and have it sitting on their servers. We want to know as little about our users as possible.
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I hate spam, and that's what happens when you let businesses onto the network.
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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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I grew up watching 'Disco Dancer'. I watched it some 20 times as a kid.
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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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Advertising isn't just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. At every company that sells ads, a significant portion of their engineering team spends their day tuning data mining, writing better code to collect all your personal data.
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It's important for people to have freedom to use whatever product they want. We have no problems with other people using other apps, so long as they keep using 'WhatsApp'.
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We obviously try to be in tune with what our users want.
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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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Our phones are so intimately connected to us, to our lives. Putting advertising on a device like that is a bad idea. You don't want to be interrupted by ads when you're chatting with your loved ones.
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'WhatsApp' began as a simple idea: ensuring that anyone could stay in touch with family and friends anywhere on the planet, without costs or gimmicks standing in the way.
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We don't really talk about our future plans. But we, at the same time, try to build things that our users ask us for.
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There were a lot of negatives, of course, but there were positives to living a life unfettered by possessions. It gave us the chance to focus on education, which was very important in the Soviet Union.
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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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We continue to grow, and, just like with countries like China or other countries where we are not doing particularly well, we take a really long-term approach.