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Rare card · Science
Jan Koum, a Rare card
Jan Borysovych Koum is an American billionaire businessman and computer programmer.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 64
- DEF
- 49
- Power
- 113
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 210,000
Power 113 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
Jan Koum quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Jan Koum card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Koum was ranked 44th on the Forbes' list of ______ Americans in 2023 with a net worth of $15.1 billion.
Answer
richest. Koum was ranked 44th on the Forbes' list of richest Americans in 2023 with a net worth of $15.1 billion. From the Jan Koum article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
He is the co-founder and former CEO of WhatsApp, a mobile messaging app which was acquired by Facebook in ____ for US$19.3 billion.
Answer
2010s. He is the co-founder and former CEO of WhatsApp, a mobile messaging app which was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for US$19.3 billion. From the Jan Koum article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Géza Pálffy. Géza Pálffy 72 · Suresh Bhargava 67 · Jan Koum 64 · Volta Congress 60 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He is the co-founder and former CEO of WhatsApp, a mobile messaging app which was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for US$19.3 billion.
- According to Forbes, he has an estimated net worth of US$15.2 billion as of October 2023, making him one of the richest people in the world.
- Koum was ranked 44th on the Forbes' list of richest Americans in 2023 with a net worth of $15.1 billion.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Jan Koum article was read about 210,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 64 and blocks with 49: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.
How to get Jan Koum
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Jan Koum (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Tech.eu Photostream, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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