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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.
WhatsApp founder and Chief Executive Officer Jan Koum is leaving Facebook Inc., just a few years after his messaging app was acquired by the social-media giant for $22 billion.
In April 2018, WhatsApp co-founder and CEO Jan Koum announced he would be leaving the company. [103] By leaving before November 2018, due to concerns about privacy, advertising, and monetization by Facebook, [104] Acton and Koum gave up $1.3 billion in unvested stock options. [105] Facebook later announced that Koum's replacement would be Chris ...
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 ...
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WhatsApp, the world’s largest messaging service, is currently looking for a new CEO, and there could be an Indian in the running for the corner office. On April 30, WhatsApp co-founder and CEO ...
Chairman and CEO [19] 2012 Previously CEO of CWT: 2018-10-01 Bharti Enterprises: Sunil Bharti Mittal: Founder and chairman [20] 1985 Founder of the firm 2018-10-01 Blackstone Group: Stephen A. Schwarzman: Chairman, CEO and co-founder [21] 1985 Co-founded the firm with Peter George Peterson: 2017-11-15 BHP: Mike Henry: CEO [22] 2020
Facebook announces that it is acquiring the Sequoia Capital-backed multi-platform mobile messaging app WhatsApp for US$16 billion ($4 billion in cash, $12 billion in Facebook shares) plus an additional $3 billion in restricted stock units to be granted to WhatsApp's founders and employees that will vest over four years subsequent to closing.