If your dream is saying goodbye to his bosses at a large multinational, start their own business in five years and sell it for more than what they would earn in generations, must be very jealous of Jan Koum (37 ) and Brian Acton (44).
These former employees
youth Yahoo, founders of the instant messaging application WhatsApp, just donning a large part of the U.S. $ 19,000 million paid by Facebook, the same company that in 2009 refused to give them a employment.
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From Ukraine to Silicon Valley
over 20 years ago nobody would have bet more than a dollar for the future of the originator of the idea of ??WhatsApp, Jan Kuoum.
In 1992, a teenager and his mother Koum settled in Califonia, USA, after leaving Ukraine.
Koum and his family survived on state aid and resided in a two-bedroom apartment in the town of Mountain View, in the Silicon Valley.
never was a model student, but he was passionate about computers, and their first steps in this direction say buying manuals gave bookstores, who read and returned shortly after.
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“Children of Jan, it made him appreciate the communication punctured,” Goetz wrote in his blog.
Facebook Did not
Like Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, Koum not finished college. He left his job to devote himself infrastructures engineer at Yahoo where he worked nine years, during which time he strengthened ties with fellow computer engineer Brian Acton.
The latter had a very different childhood to Koum. His adoptive father had tried to be a professional golfer, and his mother had an air cargo business, the magazine Wired UK.
Both described their experience in Yahoo with some frustration. Then in 2007 they left their jobs to start a one-year trip through South America.
Returning, Acton unsuccessfully applied for a job at Facebook. “Facebook rejected me … waiting for the next adventure,” then complained through the social network Twitter.
An idea
rented an office in Mountain View, a few meters from where Koun and his mother used to go to receive the state subsidy to buy food.
The plan was to create an application that would be able to announce the status of all user’s phone contacts, like “I’m in the gym” or “battery”. But the idea evolved into a system of sending free messages between phone numbers of any country.
Acton Koum and always refused to spend a single penny on advertising, yet its creation in 2011 was already one of the most bought 20 applications in the Apple app store in the United States.
Big investors courted pretty girl between mobile applications, and the winning suitor, with a bid of U.S. $ 8 million investment, was Sequoia Capital.
‘s how his career began to rise and in 2013 already had 200 million users and 50 employees. Shortly after Mark Zuckerberg called his door.
both WhatsApp okay?
With WhatsApp for sale $ 19,000 million, with a couple of friends outperforms other young entrepreneurs turned millionaires Janus Friis com (38), founder of Skype, who sold Skype to Microsoft for $ 6,000 million, or Kevin Systrom (31) and Mike Krieger (28) who received $ 1,000 from Facebook Instagram.
Some wonder if WhatsApp really worth $ 19,000 million and there are all kinds of speculation about whether Facebook will be able to return on investment so great.
But others would argue that integrating the team to two young men who achieved all this in five years and zero being spent on advertising, well worth its price.
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