10 Inspiring Quotes By Jan Koum and Brian Acton

1. Inspiring Quotes By
10

2. 1
Dealing with ads is depressing.You don’t
make anyone’s life better by making
advertisements work better.

3. 2
I want to do one thing, and do it well."

4. 3
We don't want to build a hookup app so
you can find someone weird to talk to. It's
not what we're about.We're about your
intimate relationships.

5. 4
It stinks. It’s a dead technology like a fax
machine left over from the seventies,
sitting there as a cash cow for carriers.

6. 5
We're the most atypical Silicon Valley company
you'll come across.We were founded by
thirtysomethings; we focused on business
sustainability and revenue rather than getting big
fast, we've been incognito almost all the time,
we're mobile first, and we're global first.

7. 6
Comparing total registered users and
active users is like comparing Ferrari 250
GTO with a skateboard.

8. 7
It's not 100 per cent clear to me what's
working about Snapchat. Great, teenagers
can use it to get laid all day long. I don't
care. I'm 42, essentially married with a
kid. I don't give a s--- about this.

9. 8
It was so run-down that our school didn't
even have an inside bathroom. Imagine the
Ukrainian winter, -20°C, where little kids
have to stroll across the parking lot to use
the bathroom. ...I didn't have a computer
until I was 19–but I did have an abacus.

10. 9
We want to know as little about our users
as possible.We don't know your name,
your gender… We designed our system to
be as anonymous as possible.We're not
advertisement-driven so we don't need
personal databases.

11. 10
We won’t stop until every single person
on the planet has an affordable and
reliable way to communicate with their
friends and loved ones.