# Birth of whatsapp after failures

 Birth of whatsapp after failures

Do you use Whats App. Probably you do? Are we right? Well, we are assuming we are!

Everybody who uses Whats App falls in love with it. As of 2016, Whats App has fan base of over 100 crores that hit the chart of top 20 apps within a period of just 2 years of its launch with valuation of $ 1.5 billion.

What do you ever wonder how What App was born? It was born out of a failure. A failure of its founders to get a job at Facebook. Yes. You got it right.

Whats App was founded by just 2 persons Brian Acton & Jan Koum.

Jan Koum being born in a poor family used to work as a cleaner & became interesting in programming by the age of 18. He was hired as infrastructure engineer by Yahoo & met Brian Acton there.

REJECTIONS.

#After working for over 9 years at Yahoo, both of them left Yahoo to took a recreational break for an year travelling South America. In the meantime, Brian Acton applied for a job at Twitter Headquarters but got denied on 23 May, 2009.

#Thereafter, both of them gave a try to Facebook but no luck & failed again to get a job at Facebook too.

But this didn’t disappoint them & they looked forward for their great adventure in life – “WhatsApp”.Whats App became popular in no time and Facebook that rejected them for a job in its big office was bound to pay attention to Whats App.

On February 9, 2014 Zuckerberg asked Koum to have dinner at his home, and formally proposed Koum a deal to join the Facebook board. 10 days later Facebook announced it was acquiring Whats App for US$19 Billion when Koum and Acton agreed to sell Whats App to Facebook for approximately $19 billion – the biggest deal in the history of company that was powered by Venture Capital.

Is not it interesting how things change when the POWER OF FAILURES is harnessed? The man who refused a job to persons in his company now going for coffee, dinner and walks with the same persons for his business.