79 Quotes by Jan Koum

I didnt have a computer until I was 19 – but I did have an abacus.

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.

I want to do one thing and do it well.

In Russia, you really learn about a person.

Everybody I meet who uses 'WhatsApp', I ask them a question: 'How did you hear about it?' And they say, 'My friends, my sister or my brother, somebody I know hounded me to install WhatsApp.' We think there is more power to the network when it grows organically.

We obviously try to be in tune with what our users want.

In terms of security and privacy, what people care about the most is the privacy of their messages.

In some countries, WhatsApp is like oxygen.

The encryption genie is out of the bottle.