Jan Koum – WhatsApp
John Lewis — JLAB
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Travis Kalanick – Photo Cred JD Lasica
taxi problem in the busy city .
With a little bit of innovation , Kalanick was able to take a traditional but flawed model and improve upon it . Though the company hasn ’ t been without controversy and criticism , it has still managed to become a $ 50 billion company in just six years .
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Jan Koum – WhatsApp
A dropout of San Jose State University , Koum is the Internet entrepreneur and computer engineer who founded WhatsApp , a mobile messaging application .
WhatsApp was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for $ 19 billion . Koum wanted a product that allowed the exchanging of messages without having to pay for SMS . Knowing the market and the need to be diversified , Koum launched his app in 2009 . WhatsApp Messenger is available for iPhone , BlackBerry , Android , Windows Phone and Nokia and reached 900 million users in September 2015 , justifying Koum ’ s argument for the need for diversity .
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John Lewis — JLAB
It was less than one year ago that John Lewis officially revealed JLABS — a technology incubator that will reward a winning start-up
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