The History of WhatsApp

WhatsApp is an instant messaging app it's available for multiple platforms such as Android Apple or blackberry WhatsApp was founded by Brian Acton and Jan koum 2x Yahoo employees while talking about new app ideas with friend Alex Fishman Jan koum chose the name WhatsApp Jan koum Incorporated WhatsApp Inc on the 24th of February 2009 which is also his birthday WhatsApp is intended to be a play on the phrase What's up

Jan koum is originally from the Ukraine and movies to Mountain view at the age of 16 Come started at San Jose State University and worked for earnest and young as a security tester while on a job at yahoo commit Brain Acton each like the others direct approach to situations later come got a job at Yahoo as an infrastructure engineer Jan koum and Brain Acton both left Yahoo in 2007 and both also tried to work at Facebook but both were rejected in 2009 come observed that the Apple AppStore was about to boom he discussed ideas with a close friend [_] spoke about the idea that his contact list should deliver more information and that he should be able to see if his friends were at the gym or on a call he was referred to an iPhone app developer to create the app late 2009 [_] started the company WhatsApp incorporated thus WhatsApp was born stages WhatsApp was unstable and had a small user base during a game of ultimate frisbee with friend Brain Acton Janne was encouraged to continue the WhatsApp project and not to give up when Apple released push notifications on their devices Janne jumped on board with the idea this allowed WhatsApp users to send status updates straight to their friends device and grab their attention the WhatsApp user base grew to 250,000 people Acton collected a quarter of a million in funding from some friends he knew while at yahoo Action was now in expenses to run WhatsApp came in the form of sending SMS messages for verification Jim goats from venture capital firm sequoia persuaded WhatsApp to accept 8 million in investment to help them reach their potential WhatsApp users increased again to an estimated 200 million Sequoia invested another 50 million dollars valuing WhatsApp at 1.5 billion in February 2014 Facebook bought WhatsApp for 19 billion dollars.