How did WhatsApp come into being?

Jan Koum was born on February 24, 1976, in Kyiv, Ukraine, and then to the Soviet Union. He is of Jewish descent. He grew up in Festivo outside Kyiv. The poverty of his household can be gauged from the fact that when the cold days came, he did not even have a blanket to protect himself from the cold. He used to spend the night with the sheep in his neighboring farmhouse to escape the cold.

In 1992, when the Jews of Ukraine began to be persecuted, his mother decided to leave, but Koum's father refused to leave. The mother took a suitcase with her and Jan Koum's torn old clothes and some necessities and emigrated to California, USA.

They were strangers in this land. They had no house, no job, and no food to eat. Koum and his mother began to live entirely on charity.

There is a charity called Food Stamps in the United States. The US government gives these food stamps to people living in extreme poverty, through which they eat two meals a day for free.

To save his life, Koum and his mother used to take food from the food stamp every day.

Life was getting harder by the day. Koum's mother used to work as a nanny, while she herself worked as a cleaner at a grocery store. His mother died in 2000 after a long battle with cancer.

Koum intended to get an education so that he could become someone capable and lead a better life. So at the age of 18, he became interested in programming. He enrolled at San Jose State University, as well as worked as a security tester at Ernst & Young. Jordan also met with the future founder of Reuters.

After graduating from university, Koum worked for Yahoo for nine years.

Facebook came in 2004 and as soon as it became popular, it became the largest company in the world of the internet in 2007. Com applied for a job in a Facebook company but could not get a job in the Facebook company.

Koum suddenly became interested in buying an iPhone. He started saving money and in a few months he bought an iPhone with the money he had saved and using it he came up with an idea why not create an application that would replace the phone. Yes, through which SMS can be sent, pictures can be sent and documents can be sent and there can be no hacking.

It was a unique idea. Com shared this idea with his friend Brian Acton. He also liked this idea very much and they both started struggling to finalize this idea. After two years of hard work, the two friends managed to create a magical application.

This application was published in 2009 and immediately crossed the line of popularity all over the world. In the world of telecommunications, this application caused a stir. This application connected people from all over the world from one corner to the other in a matter of seconds. This app became the fastest and safest means of communication in the world.

The name of this application was:

                                                        '' WhatsApp''

The application became so popular that companies around the world began bidding to buy it, but Koum continued to refuse.

In February 2014, Facebook joined the race to buy WhatsApp. Eventually, Koum decided to sell the application to Facebook for US $ 19.3 billion and invited Facebook's management to the Food Stamp building to refuse to attend. Forced to do so, the Facebook administration agreed to come to the food stamp building for a purchase agreement.

Most importantly, why did Koum invite the Facebook administration to the food stamp building for signing, because this was the place where Koum and his mother waited for hours for the food stamp. Not only that, but the most annoying thing would be when they reached the window, the woman sitting there would look at them with contemptuous eyes and say:

                                                      " Why don't you do any work? " 

These words tore at his heart. The two could do nothing but remain silent. Because they were helpless. The guard woman would hand over the food stamp and her mother would sign it and they would both go away wiping their tears. They went through this painful process for years.

So when Koum started to have the biggest success in the world, he decided to celebrate this success in the food stamp building and asked the Facebook administration to come here to sign. Sitting in the waiting room of the food stamp building, he signed the papers and received a cheque for the  US $ 19.3 billion,  and went straight to the window where the woman was still sitting. He placed the cheque in front of him and said:

                                                           " I finally succeeded "

He was the only person in the world at that time to own the US $ 19.3 billion with just one signature and to have the honor of being included in the list of 100 billionaires of the world.

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