For the 50th Episode, I choose a special story which you will love and one of my personal favorites too.
Jan Koum migrated to America in his teens. He was poor and did not know proper English.
He endured many personal losses and setbacks, yet he built WhatsApp, one of the most widely used app in the whole wide world.
His life reveals an incredible rise-and-fall of winning, losing, and winning again. If you didn’t believe in the power of persistence before, listen on to uncover this amazing story of this remarkable geek.
If you ever experienced failure, this real-life founder story will remove the shackles of defeat and will inspire you to move forward.
Sit back, relax, grab a popcorn. Let us check out this awe-inspiring rags-to-riches story.
What you could learn from this episode:
- The dire situations he grew up with.
- An outcast at school.
- A personal strategy and how he overcame it.
- What did he do to pay for college.
- How he met his co-founder.
- The initial idea.
- Never gaining traction and what he dod about it.
- How he almost quit this idea and what made him continue.
- How he got his early testers.
- Two things which helped Whatsapp to grow faster.
- Why they had a discreet office with no name
- What made Facebook buy Whatsapp.
