Advertising isnt just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. At every company …

- Jan Koum

Be simple and reliable

- Jan Koum

A lot of times people start out with a lot of good ideas, but then they don't execute. They lose the purity of their vision. You end up running aroun…

- Jan Koum

I want to do one thing, and do it well.

- Jan Koum

No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they’ll see tomorrow.

- Jan Koum

I didnt have a computer until I was 19 - but I did have an abacus.

- Jan Koum

Marketing and press kicks up dust. It gets in your eye, and then you’re not focusing on the product.

- Jan Koum

We focus a lot on the quality of experience, speed, reliability. It’s not sexy from a lot of people’s perspective, it’s not glitzy in the feature set…

- Jan Koum

I grew up in a society where everything you did was eavesdropped on, recorded, snitched on. I had friends when we were kids getting into trouble for …

- Jan Koum