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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

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

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 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

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.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 $𝟭𝟬,𝟬𝟬𝟬𝘅 𝗠𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲: 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗠𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗕𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 Bill Gurley had a chance to invest in Google when it had just 25 employees. He passed. At the time, search companies were failing. Yahoo’s stock had