Kum was born in Kiev, but in the 90s he moved to Mountain with his mother‑View (California). There he started as a janitor at a grocery store, and for a while they survived on food stamps.
At the age of 18, Kum became interested in programming and decided to study on his own. At 19, he joined the hacker group w00w00, and from that moment his career as a programmer began. After working at Yahoo for a while, he left there, deciding to start his own startup, which turned into WhatsApp.
The application was released in 2009, and it was downloaded Exclusive: The Rags‑To‑Riches Tale Of How Jan Koum Built WhatsApp Into Facebook*’s New $19 Billion Baby only a couple hundred people — mostly friends of the Godfather. After such a failure, Jan decided to quit WhatsApp and return to work, but his partner Brian Acton persuaded him to wait. And over time, this messenger has become one of the most popular in the world.
Bethany started surfing as a child. At the age of 13, she lost her left arm after being suddenly attacked by a shark. And it almost cost the girl her life. But no matter what, a month later Hamilton returned again 5 Inspiring Athletes Who Overcame Disabilities to the board.
Two years later, she took first place in the women's Explorer division at the NSSA National Championship. Now Bethany is also engaged in writing, and her board with a shark bite mark is on display at the California Museum of Surfing.
Franklin's father really wanted to give his son an education, but his funds were enough Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin , just to pay for two years of schooling. However, this did not stop Franklin from being a passionate lover of books, inventing a lightning rod and bifocals and becoming one of the founding fathers of America.
Jim's first performance as a comedian was a flop. It was only two years later that Kerry decided to perform again, and then success awaited him. Jim has become one of the best comedians of our time.
The editors rejected King's first novel 30 times, and Stephen threw it in the trash, disappointed in his abilities. Later, his wife Tabitha found the manuscript and persuaded the author to finish it and send it to the publisher.
This work was the novel "Carrie", which subsequently brought How Carrie Happened by Bev Vincent the writer has 200 thousand dollars (2 million at the current exchange rate). To date, has been sold worldwide Stephen King more than 350 million copies of books Stephen King. And he is called the real "king of horrors".
Before receiving universal recognition, Jo was a divorced single mother living on social security and suffering from clinical depression. She was saying Mugglemarch that she was as poor as possible in modern Britain without being homeless.
When the first Harry novel was completed, Rowling could not publish it for a year — the manuscript was rejected by 12 publishers. However, today "Harry Potter" is a real phenomenon, and J.K. Rowling is one of the richest writers on the planet.
Many basketball fans consider Michael Jordan to be the best player on the planet. Well, his name is well-known even among those who do not follow sports at all. And this despite the fact that in his youth Jordan was expelled from the national team of the school, and then in college they refused to accept him into the basketball team. However, the athlete did not give up and continued to train until he still achieved what he wanted.
As he later claimed 23 Michael Jordan Quotes That Will Immediately Boost Your Confidence : "I've missed more than nine thousand punches in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to make the winning shot, and I've missed. I have suffered failure after failure in my life. And that's why I've been successful."
The inventor of the light bulb and phonograph, Thomas Edison, was known for his perseverance. As a child, he was a frail and sickly child, and his teachers considered him narrow-minded. He did not finish school — his mother gave him home education.
Edison's first inventions — a device for counting votes in parliament and a device for automatically recording stock exchange rates — turned out to be of no interest to anyone. But later, his system of telegraphy of stock bulletins on the exchange rate of gold and shares was bought by a New York company for $ 40,000. As a result, Edison became the owner of almost four thousand patents worldwide.
The inventor tried thousands of prototypes before he created a functioning electric light bulb. "I did not fail," said But They Did Not Give Up he said, "I've only created 10,000 options that don't work. It remains to find one that works."
Born into a family of a lawyer and a flight attendant, Branson had a very hard time studying: He suffered from dyslexia, got poor grades and constantly failed exams. But instead of accepting it, Richard decided to go into business. He founded a record company, saving on everything, even delivering records to retail outlets in London in his own car.
Today, Branson has a huge fortune, which he made thanks to his conglomerate of Virgin companies. He is one of the richest people in the UK, with more than five billion dollars at his disposal.
Right now, Musk is on everyone's lips. It makes electric cars, reusable rockets, solar panels and drills tunnels for Hyperloop vacuum trains. But the billionaire did not reach this point immediately — Ilon's list of failures is long. As big as all his companies were, the failures were just as serious.
He practically bankrupted Elon Musk’s Resume of Failures Proves That Your Failures Aren’t Big Enough PayPal and was removed from the position of CEO of PayPal and Tesla. The launch of the first SpaceX rocket into space three times ended in failure and failure at launch. And only on the fourth SpaceX once, when Musk invested all his money, owed huge sums and almost became bankrupt, the launch turned out to be successful and the company was reborn like a phoenix.
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