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In Pricey Facebook Deal for WhatsApp, Two Strong-Willed CEOs

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Albergotti and Macmillan tell the story of Jan Koum of WhatsApp who immigrated from Ukraine as a teenager in 1992, and settled wih his mother in Silicon Valley. His interest in messaging apps stemmed from his interest in staying in touch with extended family in Ukraine, Russia and Israel, after losing his mother to cancer and his dad passing away in Ukraine before making it to the U.S. He met Brian Acton at San Jose State University, where he studied programming, and the two founded WhatsApp in 2009. In the early years after 1992, before joining Yahoo following graduation, Koum lived on food stamps.

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