They spent 9 years working together at Yahoo and became good friends.
But in 2007, they both left Yahoo with some cash and no plans.
Can't get a job at Facebook?
You can always sell your startup to Zuckerberg for $19 billion.
Here's the crazy story of WhatsApp👇
They spent 9 years working together at Yahoo and became good friends.
But in 2007, they both left Yahoo with some cash and no plans.
...and failed
they were proud members of the "Facebook reject club"
"Wow, this new App Store could be huge."
At the time, the App Store was 7 months old.
Koum thought it would be fun to put statuses next to friends' names in your address book.
So he went to RentACoder..com to hire a guy to build the 1st version.
But it kept crashing.
After a few though months, Koum wanted to quit and look for a job.
So he asked his friend Brian Acton for advice.
Acton said,
"You'd be an idiot to quit now.
Give it a few more months."
In June 2008, Apple unveiled push notifications for iPhone apps.
Koum added 1 feature to WhatsApp:
Every time a friend changes their status, you get a notification.
These statuses turned into fun messages.
He had accidentally created a messaging service.
It had 1 main feature: Messaging
2.0 took off like a rocketship and hit 250,000 users.
At the time, Acton was unemployed working on other dead end projects.
He secured some funding, joined as the 2nd co-founder, and got 20% of the business.
Koum had an obsessive focus:
"No distractions. No bullsh*t".
By 2011, WhatsApp was top 20 in the U.S. app store.
Then Jan Koum got an email from some guy named Mark Zuckerberg.
The subject line?
"Get together?"
It had grown faster than early Facebook.
In 2013, WhatsApp was adding 1 million new users...
PER DAY.
WhatsApp had...
• 450 million users
• only 56 employees
• only $20 million in revenue
Can't get a job at Facebook?
— Chris Hladczuk (@chrishlad) June 7, 2021
You can always sell your startup to Zuckerberg for $19 billion.
Here's the crazy story of WhatsApp\U0001f447
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The 3 big things that made the 1980's/early 1990's surreal for me.
1) Satanic Panic - satanism in the day cares ahhhh!
2) "Repressed memory" syndrome
3) Facilitated Communication [FC]
All 3 led to massive abuse.
"Therapists" -and I use the term to describe these quacks loosely - would hypnotize people & convince they they were 'reliving' past memories of Mom & Dad killing babies in Satanic rituals in the basement while they were growing up.
Other 'therapists' would badger kids until they invented stories about watching alligators eat babies dropped into a lake from a hot air balloon. Kids would deny anything happened for hours until the therapist 'broke through' and 'found' the 'truth'.
FC was a movement that started with the claim severely handicapped individuals were able to 'type' legible sentences & communicate if a 'helper' guided their hands over a keyboard.
For three years I have wanted to write an article on moral panics. I have collected anecdotes and similarities between today\u2019s moral panic and those of the past - particularly the Satanic Panic of the 80s.
— Ashe Schow (@AsheSchow) September 29, 2018
This is my finished product: https://t.co/otcM1uuUDk
The 3 big things that made the 1980's/early 1990's surreal for me.
1) Satanic Panic - satanism in the day cares ahhhh!
2) "Repressed memory" syndrome
3) Facilitated Communication [FC]
All 3 led to massive abuse.
"Therapists" -and I use the term to describe these quacks loosely - would hypnotize people & convince they they were 'reliving' past memories of Mom & Dad killing babies in Satanic rituals in the basement while they were growing up.
Other 'therapists' would badger kids until they invented stories about watching alligators eat babies dropped into a lake from a hot air balloon. Kids would deny anything happened for hours until the therapist 'broke through' and 'found' the 'truth'.
FC was a movement that started with the claim severely handicapped individuals were able to 'type' legible sentences & communicate if a 'helper' guided their hands over a keyboard.
Trading view scanner process -
1 - open trading view in your browser and select stock scanner in left corner down side .
2 - touch the percentage% gain change ( and u can see higest gainer of today)
3. Then, start with 6% gainer to 20% gainer and look charts of everyone in daily Timeframe . (For fno selection u can choose 1% to 4% )
4. Then manually select the stocks which are going to give all time high BO or 52 high BO or already given.
5. U can also select those stocks which are going to give range breakout or already given range BO
6 . If in 15 min chart📊 any stock sustaing near BO zone or after BO then select it on your watchlist
7 . Now next day if any stock show momentum u can take trade in it with RM
This looks very easy & simple but,
U will amazed to see it's result if you follow proper risk management.
I did 4x my capital by trading in only momentum stocks.
I will keep sharing such learning thread 🧵 for you 🙏💞🙏
Keep learning / keep sharing 🙏
@AdityaTodmal
1 - open trading view in your browser and select stock scanner in left corner down side .
2 - touch the percentage% gain change ( and u can see higest gainer of today)
Making thread \U0001f9f5 on trading view scanner by which you can select intraday and btst stocks .
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In just few hours (Without any watchlist)
Some manual efforts u have to put on it.
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3. Then, start with 6% gainer to 20% gainer and look charts of everyone in daily Timeframe . (For fno selection u can choose 1% to 4% )
4. Then manually select the stocks which are going to give all time high BO or 52 high BO or already given.
5. U can also select those stocks which are going to give range breakout or already given range BO
6 . If in 15 min chart📊 any stock sustaing near BO zone or after BO then select it on your watchlist
7 . Now next day if any stock show momentum u can take trade in it with RM
This looks very easy & simple but,
U will amazed to see it's result if you follow proper risk management.
I did 4x my capital by trading in only momentum stocks.
I will keep sharing such learning thread 🧵 for you 🙏💞🙏
Keep learning / keep sharing 🙏
@AdityaTodmal
