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IBNLive Facebook buying WhatsApp for $19 bn: Rejections, food stamps part of the rags …IBNLiveHis family was struggling financially and initially they lived on food stamps. "Jan Koum's family collected food stamps a couple of blocks from the unmarked Mountain View office that now houses his messaging company, WhatsApp," says …
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