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Be simple and reliable
I want to do one thing and do it well.
I want to do one thing, and do it well.
The encryption genie is out of the bottle.
In some countries, WhatsApp is like oxygen.
In Russia, you really learn about a person.
I grew up in a country where advertising doesn't exist.
We obviously try to be in tune with what our users want.
We've taken SMS technology for consumers and improved it.
Experiences from our youth shape what we do later in life.
On my iPhone 3GS, I use 'Instagram', 'Twitter' and 'Touch'.
When advertising is involved, you, the user, are the product.
I didnt have a computer until I was 19 - but I did have an abacus.
I didn't have a computer until I was 19 - but I did have an abacus.
We're not advertisement-driven, so we don't need personal databases.
I grew up watching 'Disco Dancer'. I watched it some 20 times as a kid.
Communication is at the very core of our society. That's what makes us human.
I hate spam, and that's what happens when you let businesses onto the network.
We're obsessed with making sure that voice and video work well even on low-end phones.
I grew up watching Indian movies as a kid in Russia. I am quite familiar with Bollywood.
The difficult part for us is adding features without making the product more complicated.
In some ways, you can think of end-to-end encryption as honoring what the past looked like.
The message growth rate in Brazil - it's not like a hockey stick: it's like a vertical line.
If partnering with Facebook meant that we had to change our values, we wouldn't have done it.
In terms of security and privacy, what people care about the most is the privacy of their messages.
Marketing and press kicks up dust. It gets in your eye, and then you're not focusing on the product.
Marketing and press kicks up dust. It gets in your eye, and then you’re not focusing on the product.
What makes our product work is the way we're tightly focused on messaging and being an SMS replacement.
I had so much fun in early days learning about networking, security, scalability and other geeky stuff.
Everybody who wants to join 'WhatsApp', we'll go out of our way to build a really awesome client for them.
No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they'll see tomorrow.
No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they’ll see tomorrow.
We don't really talk about our future plans. But we, at the same time, try to build things that our users ask us for.
People appreciate a good product, a stable system. They want to communicate easily and use a product that just works.
We want to do one thing and do it really well. For us, that's communications between people who are friends and relatives.
I have many regrets and things I wish I could go back and change, but I have also worked hard and tried to improve myself.
I only have one idea, that is WhatsApp, and I am going to continue to focus on that. I have no plans to build any other ideas.
Pavel Durov only knows how to copy great products like Facebook and 'WhatsApp'; he never had and will never have original ideas.
We hear lots of stories where grandparents go to a store and buy a smartphone so they can keep in touch with kids and grandkids.
A lot of my time, effort, and focus is spent on 'WhatsApp'. And that, to me, is more valuable and rewarding than to work on anything else.
Users get unlimited 'WhatsApp'. We get happy users who don't have to worry about data. Carriers get people willing to sign up for data plans.
WhatsApp's extremely high user engagement and rapid growth are driven by the simple, powerful and instantaneous messaging capabilities we provide.
People have SMS, right? It stinks. It's a dead technology, like a fax machine left over from the Seventies, sitting there as a cash cow for carriers.
Our focus remains on delivering the promise of WhatsApp far and wide so that people around the world have the freedom to speak their mind without fear.
I grew up in a country where I remember my parents not being able to have a conversation on the phone. The walls had ears, and you couldn't speak freely.
Facebook, Google, Apple, Yahoo - there's a common theme. None of these companies ever sold. By staying independent, they were able to build a great company.
We continue to grow, and, just like with countries like China or other countries where we are not doing particularly well, we take a really long-term approach.
If you look at firms like General Electric or other large companies, they don't just do one thing; they do many different things to generate sources of revenue.
A lot of times people start out with a lot of good ideas, but then they don't execute. They lose the purity of their vision. You end up running around in circles.
A lot of times, people start out with a lot of good ideas, but then they don't execute. They lose the purity of their vision. You end up running around in circles.