How WhatsApp founder went from struggling immigrant to billionaire

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• Jan Koum, 37, moved to California from the Ukraine when he was 16
• Founded mobile chat-app WhatsApp with Brian Acton in 2009
• Koum has known Mark Zuckerberg 'for a long time', Facebook CEO said
• Acton was rejected by Facebook and Twitter in 2009
  
• Koum signed $19bn deal at welfare center where he used to collect handouts

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[The Dude]

Lots of you immigrants are productive.