The Good, the Bad and the Ugly…

Beginning as a part of his newscasts during the Second World War and then premiering as its own series on the ABC Radio Networks on May 10, 1976, Paul Harvey’s “The Rest of the Story” consisted of very short stories presented as little-known or forgotten facts on a variety of subjects that in the end turned out to be about a well-known person.

As a change of pace from my typical posts, and to honor the legacy of my good friend, I have decided to occasionally post “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”, which carries on in somewhat of the same tradition. I hope you enjoy them.

The Good: Jan Koum co-founded WhatsApp bought by Facebook for $19 billion

Jan Koum is a true rags to riches story. Days before his 38th birthday he and his co-founder, Brian Acton, sold their company, WhatsApp, to Facebook for $19 billion in cash and stock. He became a billionaire.

Koum came to the U.S. when he was just 16 years old from Kiev, Ukraine, and his family struggled, living on food stamps for a while.

Koum dropped out of San Jose State University, where he studied math and computer science, after landing a job at Yahoo.

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