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COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Jan Koum

1976 - Today

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Jan Koum (Ukrainian: Ян Кум; born Yan Borysovych Kum, Ukrainian: Ян Борисович Кум, on 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan Koum has received more than 3,637,798 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Jan Koum is the 100th most popular computer scientist (up from 114th in 2019), the 603rd most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 594th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Computer Scientist.

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  • 31

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  • 5.13

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  • 3.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Jan Koum ranks 100 out of 201Before him are Radia Perlman, Joseph Sifakis, Eugene Garfield, Manuel Blum, Edmund M. Clarke, and John Hopcroft. After him are Robert C. Martin, Betty Holberton, Evan Williams, Peter Norton, Scott Fahlman, and Robert Fano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1976, Jan Koum ranks 105Before him are Nicholas Gonzalez, Jonathan Nolan, Edmílson, Giba, Remy Bonjasky, and Andrew Scott. After him are Giovanna Antonelli, Mario Yepes, Emma Bunton, Gábor Király, Boudewijn Zenden, and Wang Leehom.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Jan Koum ranks 603 out of 1,083Before him are Mikhail Kheraskov (1733), Nicholas Charnetsky (1884), Stanisław Ostrowski (1892), Yan Gamarnik (1894), Mark Donskoy (1901), and Valentina Lisitsa (1973). After him are Mark Krein (1907), Nina Dumbadze (1919), Heinrich Schenker (1868), Zellig Harris (1909), Viktor Tsybulenko (1930), and Hélène Sparrow (1891).

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Ukraine

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

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