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With WhatsApp 2.0, Koum learned his lesson and relied on customer feedback alone. Group chats, image messages and “seen” statuses were all user ideas — implemented by Koum and his team. Users loved it, and that’s why WhatsApp grew exponentially and never had to invest a single penny into marketing.

But, as Jan Koum has shown, that’s the classic good-is-the-enemy-of-great type of thinking. WhatsApp blew up because it catered to cohorts considered unsexy in Silicon Valley — the non-US, non-English-speaking, non-iPhone audience. If these users would have no value, Facebook wouldn’t have bought the app for $19 billion.

Silicon Valley’s arguments why CEOs shouldn’t bother with Android are legitimate. Android users will spend less on average. Android is fragmented — both in software and hardware. And yes, perception becomes the reality, and if investors don’t believe in Android, they will be less likely to invest.

Koum himself is an extremely humble person. He’s the type of guy to say “bless you” whenever someone in the audience sneezes during his keynote, and he’s quick to remind us that he owes a large part of his success to luck.

At 44 then, I felt I must surely stop to take stock. Redefine my ambitions, my paradigms, chart new paths for the coming years. Make the most of how many ever years I have left in this journey. But as I look back now, another 10 years on, all that I planned never happened. The universe had its own plans for me and that is what played out. You can only play with the hand dealt out to you.

Is it about Omegas, LV bags, Matchu Pitchu, careers, bank balances far in excess of our needs… The pursuit of wealth seems hollow and meaningless. Though frankly all of us mindlessly and doggedly don’t give up. The flip side of course is that a certain minimum amount of wealth is needed to simply survive. For the practical needs — house, food, health, education. Not to forget that drink at the end of a hard day.

For me, the main takeaway from Jan Koum’s story is that the biggest opportunities often lie in markets that don’t sound attractive. When the iPhone was launched in 2007, nobody in Silicon Valley wanted to build Android apps for the Indian market. But Jan Koum did, and his achievements can certainly be considered attractive.

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machine learning model the first step is to prepare the dataset. Data visualization, feature engineering, and extracting important features can be an important part of data preparation. Null values management is also a very crucial step specifically in the small datasets. We imputed missing data in this dataset using ML prediction to save more data. The second main important step is to build a model and validate it. Hyper-parameters are also important to be chosen carefully for efficient model performances. We employed a grid search to find out the optimized parameters. Finally, model evaluation is the most important task in ML model production. We mainly start with simple evaluation metrics and then narrow down to specific and more detailed metrics to understand our model’s strengths and weaknesses.

The narrator goes on to tell their stories over the next twenty years. Very creatively the tale is narrated in the context of one day each year in their lives — 15th July, St Swithins Day. The main characters — Dexter and Emma — go thru their lives without acknowledging their feelings for each other.

In 2007, the world was primed to undergo a messaging revolution. Apple had just redefined the word ‘smartphone,’ and while most tech minds were zeroed in on exploring the capabilities of the new iPhone, Koum’s international experience showed him a bigger picture of SMS shortcomings — like ridiculously high costs, limited media support and unreliability.

My dearest friend Bubloo gifted me a book on one of my trips to Scotland many years ago — One Day by David Nicholls. Whilst in this lockdown I have been thinking of this book since a few days now. I remember — once I started reading it I struggled to put it down. It was a most enjoyable read. I am anyways a sucker for not too mawkish romantic experiences. So this one was on point.

For me, the main takeaway from Jan Koum’s story is that the biggest opportunities often lie in markets that don’t sound attractive. When the iPhone was launched in 2007, nobody in Silicon Valley wanted to build Android apps for the Indian market. But Jan Koum did, and his achievements can certainly be considered attractive.

For example, when Koum was launching WhatsApp 1.0 — the status app — all of his friends told him that it was a good idea. Nobody told him they’d never use it. Perhaps they didn’t know themselves. Perhaps they didn’t want to insult him.

You can connect to their joys, successes, trials and tribulations. At the time it made me see my twenty odd years, since the completion of my education, in new perspectives. My journey thus far — the joys, the struggles, the wins, the love.

The story begins in 1988 in Edinburgh. It is about two people who have just finished their university education and are tentatively getting ready to enter the real world — full of dreams, fears, aspirations, hopes and ambition. Armed with degrees. I felt a strong connect as this was roughly the time when Bubloo and I were finishing our university education in the UK. I graduated from Brunel University in the summer of 1989.