Jan Koum’s birthday is Monday, but he’s already received his big gift.
The Ukraine-born CEO and founder of WhatsApp has catapulted from relative unknown to a poster boy for rags-to-riches immigrant triumph since selling the rapidly growing messaging company to Facebook for a record-breaking $19 billion earlier this week.
Koum, who is about to turn 38, grew up in a village near Kiev and immigrated to the United States as a teen, part of the exodus of Jews from the former Soviet Union in the aftermath of its collapse.
According to Forbes , which has published the most detailed profile of him so far, Koum grew up in a home without hot water, and his parents “rarely talked on the phone in case it was tapped by the state.": see below*
Koum first settled in Mountain View, Calif., with his mother when he was 16. To make ends meet, his mother — who apparently brought over pens and notebooks in order to avoid paying for school supplies in the U.S. — babysat while he swept a grocery store.
In an interview with Wired’s editor, David Rowan, at the Digital Life-Design conference in Munich last month, Koum said his interest in WhatsApp — which enables people to exchange free text messages with friends and family all over the world — was partially inspired by his memories of how difficult and costly it had been as a new immigrant to stay in touch with relatives back in Ukraine.
Wearing an olive-colored “John Deere” T-shirt, black hoodie and jeans, the Russian-accented Koum noted that his early years in an environment lacking the “clutter” of advertising he encountered in the United States shaped his commitment to keeping WhatsApp free of advertising.
“There were a lot of negatives, of course, but there were positives to living a life unfettered by possessions,” he told Rowan. “It gave us the chance to focus on education, which was very important in the Soviet Union.”
Given that this week Kiev erupted in flames — as clashes between protesters and President Victor Yanukovych’s security forces escalated — it’s hard not to notice the stark contrast between Koum’s current and childhood homes.
At least 39 people were killed Thursday in Kiev’s Independence Square – that’s the number the municipal government reported, but protesters estimated the death toll to be more than twice that, according to the New York Times. Just hours earlier, in sunny, tranquil Mountain View, Koum and WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton were signing the deal with Facebook, standing right outside the government office where he and his mother once stood on line to get food stamps.
The money changing hands in the WhatsApp-Facebook deal that day is a sum equal to more than 10 percent of Ukraine’s entire GDP.
- http://www.jta.org/2014/02/21/news-opinion/the-telegraph/whatsapp-ceo-jan-koums-tale-of-two-cities
[sidebar: Call what IT really is: APARTHEID! Please. BIBLE AND SWORD, Barbara Tuchman.
"Jews" think that they are not as low as other "humans". That is, humans not "Jew" are GOY-CATTLE-NOT-HUMAN!
Palestinians ought to know, too!
Americans that are AMERICANS FIRST certainly know the biggest stink (Hitler was called the STINK, too), in earth sold via the so called 'wealthy'. Wealthy in mass murdering our own species isn't very 'rich' other than sick-sick-sick ... to be continued]"... rarely talked on the phone in case it was tapped by the state"* ....
Smart Meters Allow the Government, Corporations and Hackers to Spy On You, Global Research, 2/21/14, Washington's Blog 20 February 2014
Smart Meters: A Little Too Smart
Smart meters allow the government, corporations and hackers to spy on you.
As security expert Bruce Schneier points out, the entire concept of the “Internet of Things” – where every device, from your refrigerator to your tv – is connected to the Internet is wildly insecure and vulnerable to hacking.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/smart-meters-allow-the-government-corporations-and-hackers-to-spy-on-you/5369993
That means that states with high-growth sectors, like the proposed state of Silicon Valley, which in 2012 ranked eighth in global GDP rankings, according to the Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy, and the state of Central California, home of Hollywood, would have an unfair advantage when it comes to collecting tax revenue.
Indeed, critics say the ‘Six Californias’ campaign is nothing more than a scheme for making sure that the taxes of wealthy individuals like Draper gets ‘redistributed’ inside their own affluent neighborhoods.
The proposed initiative comes at a time when an increasing number of corporations – many of them from Silicon Valley - are hiding their tax dollars overseas, avoiding the tax man altogether.
The top 10 corporate tax avoiders happen to be tech companies:
1. Microsoft, $76.4 billion
2. IBM, $44.4 billion
3. Cisco Systems, $41.3 billion
4. Apple, $40.4 billion
5. Hewlett-Packard, $33.4 billion
6. Google, $33.3 billion
7. Oracle, $26.2 billion
8. Dell, $19.0 billion
9. Intel, $17.5 billion
10. Qualcomm, $16.4 billion
Source: Bloomberg, August 2013
Draper’s initiative will require at least 807,615 petition signers, or 8 percent of the total votes cast in the 2010 gubernatorial elections, by July 18 to make it on to the November ballot.
>> http://rt.com/usa/california-us-petition-draper-246/
[sidebar con't:
1. There are too many so-called "Jews": ZIONIST JEWS Et Al.
2. The so called jews are a so-called CHOSEN RELIGION: GLOBAL CULT FACTION.
3. This crock of horseshit, RELIGION has got to get real: CATHOLICS & CHRISTIANS & ???
4. VATICAN steals our PINECONES, and this is a criminally insane act.
5. HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE is supposedly the model for the U$A: GOLDEN ARMY PROTECTS THIS FRAUD.
6. CIRCUMCISION = MUTILATION, and the 'Blood Ritual' is about as backwards as any 'imagination' can get.
7. METZITZAH B'PEH = PAEDOPHILIA - CIRCUMCISION - MUTILATION.
8. Cutting the male's tip of the DICK off and destroying the HORMONE that BONDS men and women is definitely SICK.
9. Century 21, the Jew-Zionists have been completely taken care of as a WELFARE 'Society': GLOBALLY'.
10. 1901-1948, or ? the sickest of the Homo Sapiens (JEW-ZIONISTS) get the most stolen property: circa 1950s-2014, too!
11. Harming the the majority of the human being species and of course mass murder because JEW ZIONISTS' get to.
12. All so-called chosen account ZERO almost, in being genius representation great work/s in planet earth: "IsRaHell"!
13. WE can change the fact, that, the VIRTUAL 'DEBT' is not for the "Jews" to charge the non-Jew/s: CHOSEN' fraud.
14. FRAUD is fraud: VIRTUAL DEBT SOLD AT INTEREST INTO PERPETUITY VIA 'JEW' TO 'NON-JEW'.
15. An entire group of humans decided to defraud themselves: FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM/S SLOBS-BLOB ET AL.
16. CHOSEN: "JEW", Et Cetera.
17. DO WHAT THE "JEW" HAS DONE AND DOES?!
18. Destruction of the United States of America.
19. Apartheid-Genocidal FACTION/S GLOBAL.
20. WE PEOPLE all non-criminally insane, must not choose to be as stupid as the ignorant truth is here..
21. Jewish People are a global conglomerate of so called chosen, the choosers are criminals, insanely beyond any redemption.
22. Denounce any and all manufactured superstition that separates the bond of our own humanity.
>> http://theartof12.blogspot.com/2014/02/cliff-high-half-past-human-grand-penis.html
with all our getting ... GET ENLIGHTENED, and let the HEALING BEGIN ... to be continued ....]
Exposing the criminal fraud is mandatory for the proof our species isn't in a vortex of extinction via the usual insane so called "BIGOVGLOBAL'
ReplyDeleteIMBALANCE GLOBAL is in need of BALANCING in the wellness energy of no such ideology other than criminally insane: separation and the hormone cut off in the tip of the dick removal needs to stop immediately!
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