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Today we will talk about the success story of the founder of the WhatsApp application, the idea, the reason for creating the application, and how he lived in semi-poor conditions.
Jan's success story
- The founder of the WhatsApp application "Jan" was born in Ukraine in a semi-poor family and very difficult living conditions, and his father was afraid to talk on the phone for fear of being monitored by the Ukrainian government, "Kom" attended a poor school also where there is no en-suite and no heating system The average temperature is 20 degrees below zero.
- When he was sixteen, he immigrated to the United States of America with his family, and there his mother worked as a nanny, while he worked as a cleaner in a small grocery store.
- "Jean" joined a school there, but he could not adapt to the students there due to their different lifestyle, so he was always alone, and during this time he began to learn programming on his own and through the Internet, and after a short time he participated in a hacker team.
- The situation developed until he worked in information security in some major companies, such as Yahoo, then he applied for the same job at Facebook and was rejected by the company.
The beginning of the idea of the WhatsApp application
- Jan thought with his owner "Fishman" about the idea of the program as a result of the conditions he lived in the past due to the lack of security and privacy in phone calls, "Jan" bought an iPhone and subscribed to the App Store only 9 months after its creation, at that time he realized that the application market would have a future big.
- In 2009, the “WhatsApp” application was launched, and at the time it was an application that relied on sending messages in a free way depending on the phone number, and this was not present at the time except in “BlackBerry” phones, and WhatsApp was established until the number of its users reached 800 million users around the world, And it evolved until Facebook was able to buy it in a deal estimated at $19 billion.