10 Tech-World Stars And Their Unglamorous First Jobs

By siliconindia  |   Tuesday, 28 July 2015, 00:23 IST
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Jan Koum, cofounder and CEO of WhatsApp
Job: A Floor Sweeper



Jan Koum definitely is a rags-to-riches story in the purest sense. He started off as a floor sweeper at a grocery store, to help his mom with the expenses.
He drove to a spot across the street from the former North County Social Services where he used to get food stamps to do it, when signed a deal to sell Whatsapp to Facebook for $19 BN.



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