Jan Koum Puns

Just in case anybody here needed inspiration as they pursue FIRE: https://www.cnet.com/news/whatsapp-founder-jan-koum-to-leave-company-facebook-to-play-ultimate-frisbee/

I've found this interview with Jan Koum from Whatsapp (translated from Russian). I found it interesting to see what he thinks of why people prefer to use text rather than voice and how, apparently, having $4B in cash doesn't change your life so much.

Also, some opinions on Telegram, the difference between Messenger and Whatsapp. Overall, an interesting interview.

https://medium.com/@techandthecity/whatsapp-co-founder-jan-koum-most-of-startup-ideas-are-absolutely-stupid-501ae81d28aa

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 59%. (I'm a bot)

> WhatsApp co-founder and CEO Jan Koum is leaving the company amid arguments with parent company Facebook over data privacy and the messaging app's business model, according to a report from The Washington Post.

> Koum, together with his fellow co-founder Brian Acton, sold WhatsApp to Facebook in 2014 for an eye-popping sum of $19 billion, $3 billion of which consisted of Facebook stock granted to both Koum and Acton, who left the company back in September.

> In response, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg responded to Koum in a comment saying, "Jan: I will miss working so closely with you. I'm grateful for everything you've done to help connect the world, and for everything you've taught me, including about encryption and its ability to take power from centralized systems and put it back in people's hands. Those values will always be at the heart of WhatsApp."

> Both Koum and Acton are devout privacy advocates, and both pledged to preserve the sanctity of WhatsApp when they announced its sale to Facebook four years ago, which meant the duo planned never to make integrating the product with a user's Facebook account mandatory and said it would never share data with the parent company.

> Facebook pushed WhatsApp to change its terms of service last year to give the larger social network access to WhatsApp users' phone numbers.

> Facebook leadership also pushed for unified profiles across its products that could be used for data mining and ad targeting, as well as a recommendation system that would suggest Facebook friends based on WhatsApp contacts.

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