founders of whatsapp

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founders of whatsapp: There was a time when two friends quit the job of a company like Yahoo, thinking of doing something of their own. But then felt that the matter was not being formed and then the job should be taken. But the second friend explained to the first that after walking so far, one should not leave the floor waiting. And the work went on. More friends also got on the way.
In this way, the work started as an experiment without money started to become popular, and its value in the market increased to billions of dollars.

As popularity started growing, a popular brand like Facebook had to send an offer to buy it.

The product was 'Whats-app', which has been prepared by two friends named Jan Koum and Brian Acton. Read what the Whats app on your phone today has reached you!

The early days of Jan Koum's life

The journey begins from the early days of the life of the co-founder of the WhatsApp, Jan Koum.

Jan Koum was born in 1976 in a small village near Ukraine. Kom's mother was a homemaker and her father worked in a construction company that built hospitals and schools. He often stayed outside the house. Life was very bad. Getting daily things at home was also a difficult task.

In childhood, Kom and his mother were able to gather their food somehow. His mother somehow used to make arrangements for food and everything in the house. Those days were the most challenging days of Com's life.

Then came a time that Com signed a deal of 19 billion dollars of his own Watts app in the office of the same Fair where he used to once stand to collect food with a ration card. And next to this well fair office, JanCom created the head office of the Watts app.

After selling the Watts app to Facebook for $ 19 billion, Jan Koum arrived once again with his friend Brian Acton at the same Well Fair office. This happened for the first time in life when Kom reached his office while driving his Porsche.

Met again friend

Com used to be a devil child in school, but by the age of 18, he made himself an expert in computer networking. He joined Woovoo, a hacker group in which he learned all things related to the internet and networking.

In 1997 he went to San Jose State University and found himself sitting there with Brian Acton.

While working at the university, he started working at Yahoo. One day when the server encountered some problems, Yahoo's founder Philo called Com and asked where he was. Com replied that I am in class. Philo said what are you doing in class? My team is very small and this server problem has to be fixed as soon as possible.

Kom says he did not like studying anyway. He left his studies.

Did not get a job on Facebook

When Com's mother died in 2000, he suddenly became very lonely. Her father had already died in 1997.

Com feels thankful for Acton remembering that time. They say that at that time Acton supported me a lot. We used to live together. He used to take me home with him. To recreate my mind, we used to play soccer and Frisbee.

In 2007, both Com and Acton quit their Yahoo jobs. He tried to get a job on Facebook but both failed.

Then both friends sat in a coffee shop and both Com and Acton kept talking. Keep thinking about an app. He thought how cool it would be to state the status of an app as to what you are doing. As you are on the phone, take the battery, I am in the gym.

There was no list in the name of the Watts app which was created and rejected. Com had decided to think this name at once ... "what's up"

This is how the WhatsApp app started

After this, Com continued to work for the coding of the app. He kept writing code continuously. And kept trying to sync this app to mobiles around the world.

In the beginning, the Watts app continued to crash or hang. After this, he continued working on the app in his friends' phones, downloading his contacts and making notes about where he was getting trouble.

Meanwhile, one day while playing Frisbee, Com told Acton that we should look for a job again. On this, Acton reprimanded Com saying that if you come forward so much and now you leave this project, it would be very stupid.

According to com, in the beginning, we did not think how exactly it would be made. We thought how fun it would be that whenever an app changed its status in an app, it would run across its network. Like .. I'm going to take a bath.

But gradually the instant message was added to it. After this, both friends thought that if there is an app that works all over the world that works everywhere and people get connected then it will prove to be very effective and powerful too.

Preparations for sitting in coffee shops

Jan Koum and Brian Acton developed the Watts app by sitting in coffee shops. It took many years when they would sit and work together in the same way.

It only took a few years and the value of the Watts app went from a few dollars to a billion dollars. When Facebook bought the Watts app, the company gave them $ 4 billion in cash and the remaining $ 12 billion in company shares.

The Watts app was created in 2009 and today its growth in five years is faster than Facebook.

Jan Koum says that in 2009 he started building the Watts app with a single mission. He says, "Such a cool product can be used by people all over the world. Apart from that nothing else mattered to us. We have signed our deal with Facebook and we will try our mission as it was Keep going. "

How special

By the time the Watts app started working, there were options like Skype, BBM or Gchat for free messaging, but the special thing in the Watts app was that it was logged in with a mobile number.

While working on the Watts app, Com and Acton used to test each other, talking to each other on Watts. Even at that time, two marks on the right in the WhatsApp meant that the message had reached another phone. And Acton realized how much potential he had in working on something.

After this, Com and Acton went on to work. Opened a small office where some people worked together. Com and Axton also continued to work on coding. After this, some of their old colleagues invested about $ 250,000 to work on the Watts app.

Meanwhile, his work continued and friends using BBM and iPhone and other smartphones continued to write an mail to him and ask him about the Watts app.

All these people were excited because they were going to use a free app that can be used anywhere in the world. He found it a very good idea that with a small app, a person sitting in any corner of the world can easily send any of his pictures or videos to someone so easily.

There were challenges

Initially, the biggest challenge for the WhatsApp while working was to send a verification code to people's mobile numbers. The service company that used to send the verification code to the people used to take different money according to different places of the world and this was the biggest burden on Com's bank account. But thankfully, by 2010, the company started generating a little revenue.

By 2011, the Watts app had developed several things, including sending photos to each other. This app was being liked so much for an instant chat that this year it became a top 20 app in America.

The launch of the Watts app took place very quietly. When a staff member told the com that why he did not call anyone for press or advertisement, all this dusting off and our product shines a little more. To this, Com said with great love, "Yes and that dust accumulates in our eyes and we can never do our work with focus."

Com and Acton had thought from the beginning that they would stay away from the media and would not give them any updates. And even after the WhatsApp went viral in 2011, he did not give any information related to it in the media. And in 2013, the Watts app took over the market-beating all chat apps and with

200 million users added.

... and then got the king

By the month of August 2014, monthly users of the Watts app had reached 60 crores. At the moment, how fast people are connecting with this app, it can be understood that every month, about 25 million new active users are connecting with the Watts app.

In March, the app's co-founder Brian Acton told Forbes that since December 1, 2013, one million new people are logging into the WhatsApp app every day.

At this time, the most active user Watts is the app itself. China's 'V-Chat' and Japan's 'Line' app were beaten first by the Watts app.

Currently, the WhatsApp app has more than 60 million active users in India.

According to a 2014 Forbes report, Jan Koum is ranked 202nd among the richest people in the world with a net worth of $ 6.8 billion. Brian Acton is ranked 551st with a net worth of $ 3 billion.

These are the two friends who were thinking of leaving the work of the Watts app at one time due to a lack of money. Today these two friends are running the service of WhatsApp all over the world with a team of only 55 people.