Q 01/05

WhatsApp's two founders, Jan Koum and Brian Acton, had both previously worked at which internet company?

A) AOL

B) Yahoo

C) Google

D) eBay

Answer · why

B) Yahoo

They both applied to work at Facebook after leaving and were rejected, five years before Facebook paid $19 billion for their app.

Q 02/05

The name WhatsApp was chosen because it sounds like which phrase?

A) What's up

B) What's that

C) What's new

D) What's happening

Answer · why

A) What's up

Jan Koum incorporated WhatsApp Inc. in California on February 24, 2009, a week after settling on the name and, as it happened, on his 33rd birthday.

Q 03/05

What was WhatsApp originally designed to do before it became a messaging app?

A) Send free international SMS messages

B) Share photos with nearby phones over Bluetooth

C) Display statuses next to names in the phone's contacts

D) Replace the iPhone's built-in voicemail

Answer · why

C) Display statuses next to names in the phone's contacts

When Apple launched push notifications in June 2009, users began pinging each other with jokey custom statuses like 'I woke up late', and it turned in...

Q 04/05

In which month and year did WhatsApp first appear on the Apple App Store?

A) March 2007

B) October 2010

C) January 2008

D) May 2009

Answer · why

D) May 2009

A BlackBerry version followed the next month, and Koum nearly quit when the early builds kept crashing until Acton told him to wait a few more months.

Q 05/05

How much seed funding did Brian Acton raise from five ex-Yahoo colleagues in 2009 to become a WhatsApp co-founder?

A) $2.5 million

B) $10 million

C) $250,000

D) $25,000

Answer · why

C) $250,000

He officially joined the company on November 1 that year, having earlier been working on a different startup idea.