Jan Koum quotes

Jan Koum is an American businessman and computer programmer, best known as the co-founder of WhatsApp. His journey from humble beginnings in Ukraine to Silicon Valley success story has inspired millions. He continues to influence the tech industry through innovation and philanthropy. Here are 8 of his 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.

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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.

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No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they'll see tomorrow.

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Marketing and press kicks up dust. It gets in your eye, and then you're not focusing on the product.

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Utilities get out of the way. Can you imagine if you flipped a light switch and had to watch an ad before you got electricity? Can you imagine if you turned on a faucet and had to watch an ad before the water came out?

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I want to do one thing and do it well.

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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.

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