Users all across the globe are acquainted with applications like PayPal, Grammarly, and WhatsApp, and they use them regularly, unaware that the products originated in Ukraine and were created by Ukrainian entrepreneurs.
Jan Koum, a Ukrainian emigrant, invented WhatsApp. He was born in 1976 to a Jewish family near Fastiv, where Russia is now conducting military operations. He co-founded WhatsApp, which Facebook purchased in 2014 for $19.3 billion.