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Jan Borysovych Koum [a] (born February 24, 1976 [1]) is a Ukrainian-American billionaire businessman and computer programmer. He is the co-founder and former CEO of WhatsApp, a mobile messaging app which was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for US$19.3 billion.
In 2014, Koum and Acton sold WhatsApp to Facebook for approximately US$19 billion in cash and stock. [8] Forbes estimated that Acton held over 20% stake in the company, making his net worth around $3.8 billion. [11] In 2016, Acton led a funding round for Trak N Tell and raised $3.5 million along with two other investors. [12] [13]
India is by far WhatsApp's largest market in terms of total number of users. In May 2014, WhatsApp crossed 50 million monthly active users in India, which is also its largest country by the number of monthly active users, [361] then 70 million in October 2014, making users in India 10% of WhatsApp's total user base. [362]
WhatsApp 2.0 is released on the App Store for the iPhone. [3] 2009: October: Funding: Brian Acton persuades five ex-Yahoo! friends to invest $250,000 in seed funding, and is granted co-founder status. [2] 2009: December: Product: WhatsApp for the iPhone is updated to send photos. [2] 2010: August: Product: WhatsApp support for Android OS is ...
WhatsApp Timeline; Feb 24, 2009: Jan Koum incorporates WhatsApp in California. [1] Aug 2009: WhatsApp 2.0 is released on the App Store for the iPhone. [2] Oct 2009: Brian Acton persuades five ex-Yahoo! friends to invest $250,000 in seed funding, and is granted co-founder status. [1] Aug 2010: WhatsApp support for Android (operating system) is ...
Vanity Fair magazine named Zuckerberg number 1 on its 2010 list of the Top 100 "most influential people of the Information Age". [40] Zuckerberg ranked number 23 on the Vanity Fair 100 list in 2009. [41] In 2010, Zuckerberg was chosen as number 16 in New Statesman ' s annual survey of the world's 50 most influential figures. [42]
Battleship Potemkin (1925) was ranked number 1 with 32 votes when the Festival Mondial du Film et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique asked 63 film professionals around the world, mostly directors, to vote for the best films of the half-century in 1951. [3] It was also ranked number 1 when the Brussels World's Fair polled 117 experts from 26 countries ...
Dustin Aaron Moskovitz [1] (/ ˈ m ɒ s k ə v ɪ t s /; born May 22, 1984) [2] is an American billionaire internet entrepreneur who co-founded Facebook, Inc. (now known as Meta Platforms) with Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum and Chris Hughes. [3] In 2008, he left Facebook to co-found Asana [4] with Justin Rosenstein.