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Yahoo's $2.36 trillion mistake: 1998: Google wanted to be acquired by Yahoo, so Google offered to Yahoo for $1 million, but Yahoo refused. 2002: Yahoo realized its mistake and offered to acquire Google for $3 billion, but Google demanded $5 billion

Google was selling itself for $1 million to Yahoo, but they declined. Four years later, Yahoo came running back to buy Google for $3 billion, but Google wanted $5 billion. In the early days, Yahoo dismissed Google as a small search startup. Goog

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

Top 10 Leading Tech Companies in the World by Market Capitalization (2025): 1. 🇺🇸 Microsoft – $3,380 billion 2. 🇺🇸 Nvidia – $3,239 billion 3. 🇺🇸 Apple – $3,007 billion 4. 🇺🇸 Amazon – $2,156 billion 5. 🇺🇸 Alphabet (Google) – $2,079 billion

Elon Musk, along with a few other investors, proposed a $97 billion buyout offer to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. However, Altman rejected the proposal, saying, ‘No thank you.’

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 𝘃𝘀 𝗬𝗮𝗵𝗼𝗼: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗯 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 This is the story of how Google outsmarted Yahoo… And turned a tiny startup called Android → Into the world’s #1 mobile operating sys