| 0s | Let me tell you the story, folks |
| 1s | It's about a guy named Jan |
| 3s | and it begins when he was 16 growing up in a rural village |
| 6s | |
| 8s | And as he told Forbes recently, |
| 9s | this was not the greatest place or time to be Jewish |
| 12s | So 16-year-old Jan and his housekeeper mom decide to move to America |
| 16s | Dad? He can't afford to come |
| 18s | And to save just a few pennies more |
| 20s | they fill a suitcase with Soviet-issued pens and notebooks |
| 24s | so this boy would have supplies at his new school in glorious California |
| 28s | They land in Silicon Valley, where mom gets a job and then gets cancer |
| 33s | And they survive on her disability insurance and food stamps |
| 36s | Jan gets in a bit of trouble at school but at the same time |
| 39s | teaches himself computers with manuals from the used bookstore |
| 42s | He enrolls at San Jose State but then drops out |
| 45s | when Yahoo calls with a good job |
| 47s | and there he befriends a guy named Brian |
| 48s | who takes him under his wing when Jan's mom passes away |
| 52s | After almost a decade of mostly soulless engineering work at Yahoo, |
| 56s | they quit, blow some of their savings on some travel, go to South America, play some Ultimate Frisbee |
| 60s | They apply for jobs at Facebook and get rejected |
| 64s | but using one of those Soviet notebooks he was saving for special projects |
| 68s | Jan draws a plan for something called WhatsApp |
| 71s | His invention would allow a person to message anyone on any device anywhere in the world for free |
| 77s | Just a couple of year after launch, it explodes |
| 81s | And then Mark Zuckerberg calls |
| 83s | At the Facebook founder's house, over chocolate-covered strawberries on this Valentine's Day, |
| 88s | |
| 89s | And this week, along with their main investor, |
| 91s | the guys make a symbolic trip back to the social services office where Jan used to line up for food stamps |
| 98s | and they sign the papers that made these guys billionaires |
| 101s | To put this in perspective, Erin, |
| 103s | factoring in tonight's market cap, Walmar is worth about 108,000 dollars per employee |
| 108s | GM, a little over 273,000 |
| 111s | Apple, almost a whopping 6 million dollars per full-time employee |
| 115s | But WhatsApp just sold for 344 million dollars per employee |
| 121s | They only have 55 people working there, although they are hiring |
