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Jan Koum

1976 - Today

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Jan Borysovych Koum (born February 24, 1976) is a Ukrainian-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. According to Forbes, he has an estimated net worth of US$15.2 billion as of October 2023, making him one of the richest people in the world. Koum was ranked 44th on the Forbes' list of richest Americans in 2023 with a net worth of $15.1 billion. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jan Koum is the 113th most popular computer scientist (down from 77th in 2019), the 637th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 546th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Jan Koum ranks 113 out of 245. Before him are Subhash Kak, Alan Cooper, Manuel Blum, Robert W. Floyd, John Hopcroft, and Jacques Vallée. After him are Robert Fano, Kenneth E. Iverson, Lynn Conway, Danny Hillis, Rasmus Lerdorf, and Adele Goldberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1976, Jan Koum ranks 97. Before him are James Roday, Barbie Hsu, Sebastián Abreu, Bérénice Bejo, Boudewijn Zenden, and Iván de la Peña. After him are Lukas Haas, Mario Yepes, Roque Júnior, Ayesha Gaddafi, Rigobert Song, and Marco Rose.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Jan Koum ranks 637 out of 1,365. Before him are František Kriegel (1908), Andriy Medvedev (1974), Anatoly Alexandrov (1903), Levko Lukianenko (1928), Jacek Kuroń (1934), and Ivan Horbachevsky (1854). After him are Anatoliy Demyanenko (1959), Semen Hulak-Artemovsky (1813), Zhanna Prokhorenko (1940), Franciszek Kleeberg (1888), Yuri Shaporin (1887), and Lucian Pintilie (1933).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Ukraine

Among computer scientists born in Ukraine, Jan Koum ranks 1. After him are Abraham Lempel (1936), and Kateryna Yushchenko (1919).

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