Jan Koum Quotes
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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.
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I have many regrets and things I wish I could go back and change, but I have also worked hard and tried to improve myself.
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People appreciate a good product, a stable system. They want to communicate easily and use a product that just works.
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In Russia, you really learn about a person.
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We hear lots of stories where grandparents go to a store and buy a smartphone so they can keep in touch with kids and grandkids.
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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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On my iPhone 3GS, I use 'Instagram', 'Twitter' and 'Touch'.
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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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In some countries, WhatsApp is like oxygen.
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When advertising is involved, you, the user, are the product.
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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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Anybody can build a company and sell the company the next day. That doesn't make you special, it doesn't make you unique, it doesn't make you all that great.
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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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I grew up watching 'Disco Dancer'. I watched it some 20 times as a kid.
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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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In terms of security and privacy, what people care about the most is the privacy of their messages.
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We're somewhat lucky here in the United States, where we hope that the checks and balances hold out for many years to come and decades to come. But in a lot of countries, you don't have these checks and balances.
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We've taken SMS technology for consumers and improved it.
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Communication is at the very core of our society. That's what makes us human.
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I didn't have a computer until I was 19 - but I did have an abacus.