"Jan" was born in Ukraine in a semi-poor family and very difficult living conditions, and his father was afraid to talk on the phone for fear that he was being monitored by the Ukrainian government. Kom joined a poor school as well, without an en-suite bathroom and no heating system, with a temperature of 20 degrees Below zero. At the age of sixteen he immigrated to the United States of America with his family, and there his mother worked as a nanny while he worked as a cleaner in a small grocery store.
Jean joined a school there, but he could not adapt to the students there due to their different lifestyle, and because of that, he was always alone, and during this time he began to learn to program himself on his computer and via the Internet, and soon after that he participated in a hacker team. The situation developed until he worked in information security in some major companies, such as Yahoo, and then applied for the same job in Facebook at the time, which was rejected by the company.
The start of the WhatsApp application Jan thought with his owner "Fishman" about the idea of the program as a result of the circumstances he lived in the past due to the lack of security and privacy in telephone calls. "Jan" bought an iPhone phone and subscribed to the father store only 9 months after its creation, at which time he realized that the application market will have a future Big. In the world 2009, the application of "WhatsApp" was launched, and at that time an application relied on sending messages in a free way, depending on the phone number. This was only present in the time of "BlackBerry" phones, and the WhatsApp company was established until the number of its users reached 800 million users around the world, And it developed until Facebook was able to buy it in a deal estimated at $ 19 billion.