Jan Koum

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What Wikipedia says

Jan Borysovych Koum (born February 24, 1976) is an American billionaire businessman and computer programmer. He is the co-founder and former CEO of WhatsApp, a mobile messaging app which was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for US$19.3 billion.

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