In the early 2000s, Larry Page and Sergey Brin sought investment for Google, approaching Yahoo!, which offered a lowball $1 million for acquisition. Page and Brin rejected the offer. By 2004, Google went public and dominated search, while Yahoo! stru
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Foundation • 7m
Yahoo realized its mistake and later approached Google with a $3 billion offer. However, Google asked for $5 billion, leading Yahoo to make the same mistake again
WHY YAHOO FAILED?
Yahoo was started by Terry and David as an internet directory featuring top website.
It was a hit, and its growth skyrocketed when Netscape integrated Yahoo’s directory into its browser. This attracted advertisers, bringing ad re
In the early 2000s, Larry Page and Sergey Brin sought investment for Google, approaching Yahoo!, which offered a lowball $1 million for acquisition. Page and Brin rejected the offer. By 2004, Google went public and dominated search, while Yahoo! stru
These kids begged Yahoo to buy their website for $1 Million in 1998.
Yahoo's CEO called it "worthless."
Today, that little site is worth $2 TRILLION dollars.
Here's why they still send Yahoo a "Thank You" card every year:
In 1998, Yahoo had a cha
Yahoo - was founded in 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo two graduate students but he's the thing Yahoo was never meant to be a business these two graduates just listed their favourite website in a directory and published it in the internet.
Because
Do you know the same situation happened with "Google" Like Jiohotsar 💡
A Guy Who owned "Google" domain for only $12 🤯
In 2015, Sanmay Ved, a former Google employee, discovered that Google’s domain “google.com” was available for purchase through G
Google to spend more: Hassabis on Microsoft's $100-bn Al supercomputer plan.
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, when asked about Microsoft and OpenAl's potential plan for a $100-billion Al supercomputer named 'Stargate', said, "I think we're invest
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Havish Gupta
Stealth • 12d
This side project makes Google $8 billion Annually!
So, Google always encourages their employees to spend 20% of their time working on side projects.
Because of this, Susan Wojcicki decided to make a tool that helps them monetize search results.
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MONKEY D LUFFY
Stealth • 8m
"If you're not getting any ideas, you should read a book or listen to its audio. The book's name is 'Steal Like an Artist.' After reading this book thoroughly, you'll never struggle with generating unique ideas again. Instead, you'll start thinking a
How Did I Get the Idea for InnerMap?
One day, when I was in college waiting for my class to begin, someone approached me asking for directions to a particular department. Since I hadn't seen that department myself, I advised him to ask the guards fo
In November 2006, Google acquired YouTube for a staggering $1.65 billion in stock. This was just 18 months after YouTube's creation.
What's lesser-known is that YouTube's success was so massive, it was using more bandwidth in 2006 alone than the ent