While that approach might work for some problems, like finding a treatment for a tropical disease, more entrenched issue

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

By contrast, philanthropists who make their money in more traditional fields tend to give big gifts involving naming rights. A review of the biggest individual donors of 2019, according to Forbes, illustrates this tendency: a couple with a fruit-and-nut fortune pledged $750 million to Caltech to fund a climate change research center named after them; Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry now bears the name of a hedge fund founder who made a $125 million donation.

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.

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.

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.

With location sharing data, 65 billion messages sent per day, and access to users’ entire contact lists, Facebook has access to a ton of personal information — all uploaded and saved on its servers. While Mark Zuckerberg has previously promised that this data won’t be used to improve consumer targeting in Facebook ads, it will be unless the user changes the settings to not share information with Facebook. (source)

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.

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te America and my corporate paycheck behind, I tried to quit straightening treatments. But I couldn’t quite do it. I freaked out as soon as my curly “new growth” hit the previously unheard of six-month mark. Would I be relegated back to the damn braid-and-bun?

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.

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.

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.