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 • 10m
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
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
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Havish Gupta
Figuring Out • 9m
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.
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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.’
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Aakash kashyap
Building JalSeva and... • 5m
Do you know the same situation happened with "Google" Like Jiohotsar 💡
A Guy Who owned "Google" domain for only $12 🤯
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UPDATE: We got an offer to get acquired.
The past month has been crazy for us.
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Quick Context:
We were approached by someone we had previously worked with.
We had a long conversation, and he suddenly asked about our vision for YourWebsite.shop
I made a mistake
Honestly speaking I thought that nobody would read the post and I expressed what was there in my mind
It was like, I went out for me from that experience of rejection
But little I know I should not take the or like show the perso
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