Jan Koum Quotes

Mobile Messaging is rapidly becoming the primary way users engage socially on mobile.

WhatsApp I adore. I use it all the time with my friends.

People respond faster to you on a text than an e-mail. Why is that? Why will they ignore an e-mail, but get back to a text?

Pager companies are very much looking to provide new services to help them regain some of their customer base.

I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.

All the trends show that email usage among the younger cohorts of Internet users is declining. Whether it will take five or 30 years for email to go extinct, I'm not sure.

Things like WhatsApp are a great example of success that others have had on Android, which we see as welcome innovation on the platform.

If you were in Spain or Brazil, most of the population there is interacting with WhatsApp multiple times a day.

I do use texting as a great way to communicate quickly, but I don't Twitter or anything.

As long as I can make a phone call and do a WhatsApp, I'm fine.

In some countries, WhatsApp is like oxygen.

A lot of my time, effort, and focus is spent on 'WhatsApp'. And that, to me, is more valuable and rewarding than to work on anything else.

'WhatsApp' began as a simple idea: ensuring that anyone could stay in touch with family and friends anywhere on the planet, without costs or gimmicks standing in the way.

If you get a WhatsApp message, you're probably going to open it. That's the interesting thing.

I actually get very little phone calls. I get way more tweets and texts. My phone rarely rings.

This new form of communication could have some utility.

WhatsApp's extremely high user engagement and rapid growth are driven by the simple, powerful and instantaneous messaging capabilities we provide.

I used to have a BlackBerry. E-mail and text messaging and all those things that make life so much easier now.

The overall tectonic shifts that are going on in games and more broadly in media are that everything is moving to becoming free, social, and accessible. But we're just at the beginning of that. We can get to a day where short-session play can enhance, if not replace, text messaging as a way to stay in touch with people.

The way people communicate is changing, and no one knows this better than teens. We are using images to talk to each other, to communicate what we're doing, what we're thinking, and to tell stories.

What makes our product work is the way we're tightly focused on messaging and being an SMS replacement.

One of the places the full stop is really being revised in a really fundamental way is on the Internet. You look at the Internet or any instant messaging exchange - anything that is a fast dialogue taking place. People simply do not put full stops in unless they want to make a point.

People have SMS, right? It stinks. It's a dead technology, like a fax machine left over from the Seventies, sitting there as a cash cow for carriers.

For those still outside the cult of Slack, it's a service - available as a desktop or mobile app, or a website - which is essentially a series of public chat rooms (called channels) on topics relevant to a company or to teams within a company.

'WhatsApp' provides phone number-based messaging, and people asked, 'Isn't that what SMS is?' Yes, but SMS is expensive, antiquated, and what WhatsApp did was modernize and level that playing field.