Jan Koum — From Food Stamps to $19B
Co-founder & CEO
- Co-founder & CEO
- Grew up on food stamps in Ukraine
- Sold to Facebook for ~$19B
Companies / The Platform Era
The Platform Era · 2010s — one of the 100 companies on the MogulSpin reels.
The legends
Brian Acton
- Co-founder
- Later funded the Signal Foundation
Neeraj Arora
- Led WhatsApp's business and the Facebook deal
Also on the roster
Jim Goetz / Sequoia
When WhatsApp lands on your reels, these are the people you draft — Visionary, Operator, Builder, Financier, one irreversible lock at a time. How few companies in the world will be worth more than yours?
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