We focus a lot on the quality of experience, speed, reliability. Itโs not sexy from a lot of peopleโs perspective, itโs not glitzy in the feature set, but itโs what people come to rely on.
Jan KoumMarketing and press kicks up dust. It gets in your eye, and then youโre not focusing on the product.
Jan KoumI grew up in a society where everything you did was eavesdropped on, recorded, snitched on. I had friends when we were kids getting into trouble for telling anecdotes about Communist leaders.
Jan KoumAdvertising isnt just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. At every company that sells ads, a significant portion of their engineering team spends their day tuning data mining, writing better code to collect all your personal data.
Jan Koum