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Jan Koum net worth: Jan Koum is a Ukrainian born internet entrepreneur who has a net worth of $10 billion. Jan Koum is the co-founder of the enormously popular smartphone messaging service WhatsApp. On February 19, 2014 Jan Koum sold WhatsApp to Facebook for $19 billion in cash and stock. At the time of the sale Koum still maintained a 45% ownership stake in his company. His co-founder Brian Acton owned 20% and became instantly worth $3.8 billion. The deal was made up of 184 million common stock shares (which on the day of the sale were worth $12.5 billion) and $4 billion in cash. An additional 46 million shares were set aside for the owners which vests over several years as long as they stayed employed at Facebook. WhatsApp is the worlds most popular messaging service. At the time of the sale it had 450 million users and was adding one million users every single day. Jan Koum attended San Jose State University before landing a job at Yahoo where he stayed for nine years. He met his future billionaire co-founder while they were both working as engineers at Yahoo. They left Yahoo in 2009 and launched WhatsApp soon after. WhatsApp allows users to send text messages and photos for free using their broadband data instead of a text message plan. The service is free for the first year then just $0.99 a year from then on. Brian Acton left Facebook in 2017 over concerns about how Facebook’s upper management were implementing invasive privacy and ad changes to the platform. He left hundreds of millions of dollars in un-vested stock options on the table when he left.  Jan Koum left Facebook 2018 over similar concerns, but he stuck around to earn nearly $1 billion in options. Real Estate and Cars: Over a four year period Jan acquired 5.6 acres of real estate in Atherton, Ca for a total of $57 million. He proceeded to raze all the existing structures to make way for his massive custom compound. He reportedly spent $20 million on the site’s new structures. His new garage alone spans 10,000 square-feet, which is convenient because Jan is an avid car collector, especially Ferraris and air-cooled Porshes. His collection features a Ferrari F12berlinetta, a Ferrari F12tdf and several other Ferraris new and old. He also still owns his first Atherton home, a 3700 square foot abode purchased in 2015 for $8.8 million.

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Wilma Tisch Net Worth: Wilma Tisch is an American billionaire who has a net worth of $1.4 billion. She is the heir to her family’s fortune, the Tisch family that controls the Loews Corporation. Born Wilma Stein in Long Branch, New Jersey in 1927, she grew up in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Wilma’s grandfather was a German Jewish immigrant, while her father was a journalist who would eventually join the automotive industry. As for her grandmother on her mother’s side, she was an immigrant of Lithuanian Jewish origin. Wilma began her education in public schools before proceeding to Skidmore College where she graduated with B.S in 1948. She also majored in Economics and earned a minor in Accounting. Upon graduation, she landed a post at the Time, Inc as a secretary and soon she got married to Laurence Tisch. Their love resulted in the birth of four children: Andrew Tisch, Daniel Tisch, James Tisch and Thomas Tisch, a partner at FLF Associates. It was her husband’s wealth that made her join the billionaire circles. Today, Wilma and Joan Tisch, her sister- in-law, control the Tisch family fortune that was built by their late spouses, Preston Tisch and Laurence Tisch. Precisely speaking, Wilma currently holds 5% of the Loews Group. A notable philanthropist as she is, Wilma is a trustee and board director at the Blythedale Children’s Hospital in New York. Since 1969, she has also been a member of the Distribution Committee of Federation of Jewish Philanthropies. Wilma is the first woman to hold the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies presidency and for her contributions, she was even awarded the Louis Medal Marshall Medal in 1976. While for her numerous philanthropic endeavors, she received a honorary doctorate from New York University in 2006.

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