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Mahendra Lochhab

Content creator • 6m

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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Piyu

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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

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Havish Gupta

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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

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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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Vishu Bheda

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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