Jan Koum, the creator of WhatsApp

Born on the 24th of February 1976 in Kiev, Ukraine, Jan Koum grew up in the Fastiv area outside of the capital and in 1992 he moved to California with his mother and grandmother due to the complex political events in the country at the time.Jan remembered that his mother stuffed the suitcases with pens and notebooks to avoid paying the school supplies in the US. Settling in Mountain View, he was