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Jan Koum Quotes

I want to do one thing and do it well Picture Quote #1

When advertising is involved, you, the user, are the product Picture Quote #1

Facebook, Google, Apple, Yahoo - there’s a common theme. None of these companies ever sold. By staying independent, they were able to build a great company Picture Quote #1

I grew up in a country where I remember my parents not being able to have a conversation on the phone. The walls had ears, and you couldn’t speak freely Picture Quote #1

I only have one idea, that is WhatsApp, and I am going to continue to focus on that. I have no plans to build any other ideas Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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A lot of times, people start out with a lot of good ideas, but then they don’t execute. They lose the purity of their vision. You end up running around in circles Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I want to do one thing, and do it well Picture Quote #1

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No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads theyll see tomorrow Picture Quote #1

A lot of times, people start out with a lot of good ideas, but then they don’t execute. They lose the purity of their vision. You end up running around in circles Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Marketing and press kicks up dust. It gets in your eye, and then you’re not focusing on the product Picture Quote #1

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I want to do one thing and do it well (Jan Koum Quotes) When advertising is involved, you, the user, are the product (Jan Koum Quotes) Facebook, Google, Apple, Yahoo - there’s a common theme. None of these companies ever sold. By staying independent, they were able to build a great company. (Jan Koum Quotes) I grew up in a country where I remember my parents not being able to have a conversation on the phone. The walls had ears, and you couldn’t speak freely. (Jan Koum Quotes) I only have one idea, that is WhatsApp, and I am going to continue to focus on that. I have no plans to build any other ideas. (Jan Koum Quotes) 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 Quotes) A lot of times, people start out with a lot of good ideas, but then they don’t execute. They lose the purity of their vision. You end up running around in circles. (Jan Koum Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) I want to do one thing, and do it well (Jan Koum Quotes) No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads theyll see tomorrow (Jan Koum Quotes) A lot of times, people start out with a lot of good ideas, but then they don’t execute. They lose the purity of their vision. You end up running around in circles (Jan Koum Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Marketing and press kicks up dust. It gets in your eye, and then you’re not focusing on the product (Jan Koum Quotes)