Three billionaires from the United States, born in the USSR Bashny.Net

Jan koum, founder of WhatsApp

In our days it is difficult to imagine a man that didn't have WhatsApp, but less than 10 years ago its Creator, Jan koum, was confident in the complete failure of their offspring...

Kuma's childhood passed in a difficult time of perestroika. The political situation and anti-Semitic sentiments in the country forced the family Kum to think about emigration. In the early ' 90s he and his mother arrived in mountain view is a city in California (USA), where is now located the offices of major technology companies. They settled in a small apartment with two beds. Mother got a job as a nanny, and the godfather went to school, worked as a janitor at the store. Yang had little contact with their peers. Instead, he read books on the work of computing systems. In 1997 he was invited to perform as written advertising platform Yahoo! and six months later took the staff. Kum began to think on the creation of WhatsApp, when the hall, where he was engaged in Boxing, banned the use of mobile phones. He was angry that he misses important calls.

The name came by itself — simple, like all service — "what's happening?". In 2009, the app has seen the light, but, to the disappointment of the godfather, after painstaking work, it failed... But, in 2011, the app entered the top-20 best apps of the App Store. Today every programmer WhatsApp provides 14 million users. In addition, the company has never spent on marketing. After a record deal, the WhatsApp founder has joined the Board of Directors of Facebook and became its largest individual shareholder after Mark Zuckerberg. Before founding WhatsApp, Jan koum has repeatedly tried to get a job at Facebook, but to no avail.





Sergey Brin, founder of Google

Today almost every Internet user is known to Google. And the words "Google" and "Google" are hardly the most popular verbs in the lexicon of modern man...

The founder of Google, Sergey Brin, born in Moscow into a Jewish family of mathematicians, who moved to permanent residence in the United States in the late 70's. His mother worked as an engineer, his father was a gifted mathematician. In the former Soviet Union, Michael Brin experienced a huge inconvenience: the hidden anti-Semitism put obstacles talented math, so the family moved to the United States. Sergey Brin during their studies began to impress the teachers completed homework, which he had printed on a home printer. At that time, even in the US, their home computers were not all – it was a rare luxury. After school, the future founder of Google, moved to Silicon valley and started his studies at Stanford University. There was his meeting the future founders of Google with Larry page. In 1996 Stanford University computer page BackRub, the precursor to all of the now-famous Google search engine. Already in 1998, every day here addressed about ten thousand users.

Young people have developed their Grand opening, even came up with the name of the company – Googol, which means a unit with a hundred zeros, but could not find investors. And suddenly they amazingly lucky businessman Andy Bechtolsheim decided to help them.

Andy two minutes after the beginning of the conversation he took out his checkbook and began to write a check for one hundred thousand dollars, asking the name of the company. And out on the street, young people discovered the "mistake": they are an investor because of his carelessness renamed their offspring, putting instead of "Googol" the name of the company "Google Inc".

On 7 September 1998 it was officially registered the birth of Google. In the summer of 2004, the company's shares on the stock exchange received the highest value.

From that moment Sergey Brin and his companion turned into billionaires. The status of each to date estimated at more than $ 18 billion.

 

Max Levchin, founder of PayPal

Max was born in Kiev in 1975 in a Jewish family. Levchin hard life was in the Soviet Union in 1991, the family emigrated to the United States which settles in Chicago. Before moving on, Max had quite a good command in English and therefore decided to enroll at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who graduated in 1997. And in 1998, Max loading in truck 24 PC and 6 tables of his office and moved to live in Silicon valley. In California Levchin is launching several startups, which, however, were not successful. But perseverance is the main key to the success of business online.

Max and friends decided to start a new project, which would allow Internet users to make financial transactions on the Internet. Thus was born the concept of "electronic money".PayPal began its work in late 1999, the Project was more successful than expected by its creators; in the first months, for example, Nokia has invested in the project $3.5 million, Deutsche Bank $1.5 million, Many banks have invested in PayPal, a total of more than $20 million Soon, thanks to the growing society of Internet users, PayPal already had in database about one and a half million customers, but daily turnover exceeded $2 million In 2002 PayPal buy online eBay auction for $2.2 billion.

Leucine can be an example for many beginning Internet businessmen. Max lives by the principle "wanted — made". Like many, Levchin started from scratch. In the end, he became a living legend. Internet business can create every. But to achieve success may be the only one who has unbending intent to realize his dream.

 

P. S. And remember, just changing your mind — together we change the world! ©

 

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