Founders of WhatsAp
Brian Acton and Jan Koum are no stranger to failure. Today their app is the
most valuable messaging platform on planet, but they had their fair share of
rejection by top tech companies, including the one that eventually bought their
service.
Jan Koun was an immigrant from Ukraine and was poor as a
teenager that he use to save his old Soviet notebook for school. Brian Acton
lost a small amount of fortune in a dot com bust and was rejected for jobs at Twitter
and Facebook.
Now the men behind the hot mobile messaging service WhatsApp are the newest
tech industry billionaire. Facebook has bought WhatsApp for $19 billion and
Koum got a seat on the social network’s board of directors.
After taking a year off to travel in South America, both of
Jan and Brian applied to Facebook and were become the member of Social
media giant Facebook rejected club. Koun bought an iphone and idea of new
app hit him. He thought that inventing an instant messaging and hassle free
service would work wonders across the globe if it had mobile users as a base.
It took these guys months of back breaking work and testing to get the code in
place. Koum released WhatsApp 2.0 with
messaging component and it had 250,000 active users. By 2011 this awesome App
found place among the top 20 apps in US app store stated by Forbes.
Today WhatsApp has more than 450 million active users, and
reached that number faster than any other company in history. The most amazing
aspect of the company that, it doesn't have a PR person or marketer. All of
WhatsApp’s growth has come from happy customers encouraging their friends to
try the service.
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