Jan Koum, founder of WhatsApp, born and raised in the suburbs of Kiev, Ukraine, from a relatively poor family. At the age of 16 years, he was desperate to move to America, in pursuit of what we know as the "American Dream".
At age 17, he could only eat from government rations. He almost became a bum. Sleep roofed skies, paved ground. To survive, he worked as a janitor supermarket. "Life is so bitter", Koum thought.
Her life when her mother was diagnosed with increasingly steep cancer. They survive only with makeshift medical benefits. Koum almost did not graduate from a high school in Mission Viejo, California, and Koum lecture at San Jose University while working as a security tester at Ernst & Young. But then he chose to drop out, because it prefers to learn programming autodidact.
In 1997, Jan. Koum employed by Google as an infrastructure technician. He also met and befriended Brian Acton familiar with while working at Ernst & Young. Because of his skills as a programmer, Jan. Koum hired as an engineer at Yahoo, and worked there for 10 years.
Having resigned from Yahoo. Both had applied to the rising popularity of Facebook at the time, but was rejected. Facebook may now deeply regret ever rejecting their application.
In January 2009, Koum buy an iPhone and realized that the App Store then aged seven months to hit the world of industrial applications. He visited his friend, Alex Fishman, and both deliberated for several hours around the idea of home Fishman Koum applications. On the day of his birthday February 24, 2009, he founded WhatsApp Inc.. in California.
After the official WhatsApp Facebook purchased at a price of 19 billion U.S. dollars, or around Rp 224 trillion, Jan. Koum perform the ritual touching. He came to the place where he used to be, at the age of 17 years, every morning to stand in line to receive food rations from the government. She leaned her head against the wall where he used to stand in line. Remembering the hard times, which even for a meal he did not have any money. Slowly, her tears melted. He never thought his company was bought by the highest value.
He then recalled that his mother had died of cancer. His mother is willing to sew a shirt for him to save. "No money, kid ...". Jan Koum stunned. He regrets never be able to preach the happy news to his mother.
Hopefully this story be an inspiration for us all ...
from : http://inmotivasi.blogspot.com/2014/05/kisah-inspirasi-pendiri-whatsapp-dari-Remaja-Miskin-Kini-Jadi-Triliuner.html
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