Quotes by Jan Koum - Page 2

'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.
Jan Koum / Internet Entrepreneur
Family And Friends
Standing
Whatsapp
Ensuring
Simple Idea
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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'.
Jan Koum / Internet Entrepreneur
Apps
Whatsapp
Freedom Long People
No Problems
Problems
Product
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Ironically, I grew up watching Indian movies as a kid in Russia. I am quite familiar with Bollywood. I grew up watching 'Disco Dancer;' I watched it some 20 times as a kid.
Jan Koum / Internet Entrepreneur
Bollywood
Dancer
Disco
Familiar
Indian
Russia
Watched
Ironically
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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.
Jan Koum / Internet Entrepreneur
Data
Differentiate
Sitting
Users
Your People Know
Collect
Companies
Facebook
Yahoo
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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.
Jan Koum / Internet Entrepreneur
Democracy
Freedom Of Speech
Totalitarian State
Freedom Democracy Freedom Of Speech
Eavesdrop
Escaped
Totalitarian
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We focus a lot on the quality of experience, speed, reliability. It’s not sexy from a lot of people’s perspective, it’s not glitzy in the feature set, but it’s what people come to rely on.
Jan Koum / Internet Entrepreneur
People
Perspective
Sexy
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A lot of what I experienced growing up in the U.S.S.R. and coming to the U.S. as an immigrant actually reflects itself in Whatsapp. Experiences from our youth shape what we do later in life.
Jan Koum / Internet Entrepreneur
Whatsapp
Youth
Experienced
Immigrant
Reflects
Shape
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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.
Jan Koum / Internet Entrepreneur
Kids
Anecdotes
Communist
Communist Leaders
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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.
Jan Koum / Internet Entrepreneur
Ads
Chatting
Connected
Interrupted
Loved Ones
Phones
Bad Idea
Device
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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.
Jan Koum / Internet Entrepreneur
Soviet
Soviet Union
Negatives
Positives
Union
Unfettered
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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.
Jan Koum / Internet Entrepreneur
Checks
Decades
Balances
Checks And Balances
Somewhat
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Our team has always believed that neither cost and distance should ever prevent people from connecting with their friends and loved ones, and won't rest until everyone, everywhere is empowered with that opportunity.
Jan Koum / Internet Entrepreneur
Connecting
Distance
Empowered
Loved Ones
Neither
Prevent
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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.
Jan Koum / Internet Entrepreneur
Critical
Critical Mass
Mass
Whatsapp
Base
Tip
User
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Utilities get out of the way. Can you imagine if you flipped a light switch and had to watch an ad before you got electricity? Can you imagine if you turned on a faucet and had to watch an ad before the water came out?
Jan Koum / Internet Entrepreneur
Electricity
Flipped
Imagine
Water
Ad
Faucet
Switch
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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.
Jan Koum / Internet Entrepreneur
Load
Russia
Complex
Neighbours
Resource
Shared
Telephone
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When I was a kid trying to communicate with family in the Soviet Union, it was very difficult. You had to go through the long-distance phone companies like MCI, which were difficult to navigate and expensive to make calls through.
Jan Koum / Internet Entrepreneur
Communicate
Expensive
Long Distance
Navigate
Soviet
Soviet Union
Calls
Companies
Phone
Union
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We're not interested in bombarding our users with, 'Hey, play this game, play this game, play this game.' It gets annoying, it gets in the way of messaging, and it gets in the way of staying in touch with people who are important to you.
Jan Koum / Internet Entrepreneur
Annoying
Hey
Not Interested
Staying
Users
Game People Way
Messaging
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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.
Jan Koum / Internet Entrepreneur
Sister
Brother
Grows
Whatsapp
Power Me Know
Install
Meet
More Power
Network
Organically
Question
They Say
Uses
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Advertising isnt 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.
Jan Koum / Internet Entrepreneur
Engineering
Team
Writing
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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.
Jan Koum / Internet Entrepreneur
Ads
Aesthetic
Code
Company
Data
Disruption
Engineering
Mining
Sells
Significant
Team
Tuning
Collect
Insults
Interruption
Personal
Portion
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At WhatsApp, our engineers spend all their time fixing bugs, adding new features and ironing out all the little intricacies in our task of bringing rich, affordable, reliable messaging to every phone in the world. That's our product, and that's our passion. Your data isn't even in the picture. We are simply not interested in any of it.
Jan Koum / Internet Entrepreneur
Affordable
Bugs
Data
Engineers
Features
Fixing
Not Interested
Passion
Rich
Whatsapp
Picture
Time World Your
Adding
Interested
Bringing
Simply
Phone
Spend
Ironing
Messaging
Product
Reliable
Task
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You don't have to give us your name and we don't ask for your email address. We don't know your birthday. We don't know your home address. We don't know where you work. We don't know your likes, what you search for on the internet or collect your GPS location. None of that data has ever been collected and stored by WhatsApp, and we really have no plans to change that.
Jan Koum / Internet Entrepreneur
Home
Data
Gps
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