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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan Koum has received more than 3,866,362 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Jan Koum is the 77th most popular computer scientist (up from 100th in 2019), the 546th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 600th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Computer Scientist.

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  • 3.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Jan Koum ranks 77 out of 245. Before him are Adi Shamir, Stephen Cook, Richard M. Karp, Sergey Lebedev, Judea Pearl, and Richard E. Stearns. After him are Kathleen Antonelli, Joseph Sifakis, Radia Perlman, Ruth Teitelbaum, Gil Amelio, and Marlyn Meltzer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1976, Jan Koum ranks 71. Before him are Itamar Ben-Gvir, Sally Hawkins, Juan Pablo Sorín, Paz Vega, Isla Fisher, and Rigobert Song. After him are Nwankwo Kanu, Mark Webber, Tuomas Holopainen, Juliano Belletti, Tim Duncan, and Giovanna Antonelli.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Jan Koum ranks 546 out of 1,365. Before him are Oleksiy Danilov (1962), Jerzy Kuryłowicz (1895), Yakov Malik (1906), Inessa Kravets (1966), Polina Osipenko (1907), and David Bergelson (1884). After him are Ivan Martinov (1771), Jan Brzechwa (1898), Alexander Bogomazov (1880), Kazimierz Górski (1921), Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz (1890), and Ilya Ilf (1897).

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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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