Guy Mason

Senior Testing Professional and New Media/On-line Media/Digital Agency QA Specialist. Logician; Digital Junkie; Technology, Photography and Music fan.

[Eunice D Wong 🦄 @Eunicedwong]

This guy grew up in a house with no running water or electricity and years later, he sold his app for $19 BILLION.

His name is Jan Koum, born in 1976 in Ukraine.

At 16, he moved to California with his mother. They had nothing and were living on food stamps while he worked as a janitor at a local grocey store to help get by.

He became obsessed with programming, teaching himself through used books and manuals. He later enrolled at San Jose State University and joined a hacker group called w00w00. Eventually got a job in security testing at Ernst & Young, where he met Brian Acton, his future co-founder.

He dropped out of college and spent 9 years working as an engineer at Yahoo.

In 2009, he applied to Facebook. But got rejected.

A few months later, he bought an iPhone. Seeing the App Store gave him an idea - "a simple app that showed your status so friends knew what you were up to."

That idea became WhatsApp.

He built it with Acton under one core principle: No ads. No games. No gimmicks. Just a simple messaging app that worked.

In 2014, Facebook, the same company that rejected him, bought WhatsApp for $19 billion.

[PaulleyTicks @PaulleyTicks]

Fixed it.

#Tariffs

[Aes🇺🇸 @AesPolitics1]

It turns out he was talking about himself..

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Lmao, it was all rigged again?

I. Can’t. Believe. It.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Jawdropping.

You would expect this in a dictatorship, not the United States.

This country is unrecognizable.

[Guy Mason @testingqa]

@LadyofCrypto1 They likely used MM for mass price manipulation, driving the price down as they have the capital, liquidating others, and buying at a bargain rate

[Eddie @ENT_335]

@LadyofCrypto1 Trump can bitch slap each one of its voters and voters will say it was their faces fault for running into Trump’s hand. This post proves that.

[Guy Mason @testingqa]

@LadyofCrypto1 Rugging everyone was the primary reason crypto needed regulation, to stop as’holes doing stuff like that to us all.

[Guy Mason @testingqa]

@LadyofCrypto1 It’s because it is a bear market. Bring back the bull!

[Guy Mason @testingqa]

@LadyofCrypto1 It’s no bull market right now, we’re only fooling ourselves if we call it that. It’s been a bear market since the day Trump got inaugurated. The whole thing since then has felt like a massive rug pull, which came after a massive liquidity drain via his meme coin.

[Guy Mason @testingqa]

@LadyofCrypto1 Trump broke it 🫠😔

[Guy Mason @testingqa]

@LadyofCrypto1 I wish #Trump would stop getting us #rekt. I’ve not seen my portfolio go this bad even at the depths of the last bear market. Before he was inaugurated it was the strongest it had ever been.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Elon is now officially in a public meltdown.

It is hard to watch. And... delicious.

[Guy Mason @testingqa]

@Eunicedwong This one appears to be dying

[Guy Mason @testingqa]

@Ashcryptoreal I want whatever drugs Ash is on

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Trump announced reparations for white people today, if anyone was wondering how wildly racist this is going to get

[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

Donald Trump has won the election, and Republicans are now comfortable openly admitting that Project 2025 was the plan all along.

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