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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

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗶𝗱 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗧𝘂𝗯𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺? Founded on February 14, 2005, by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim (former PayPal employees). Initial Idea was to create an easy-to-use video-sharing

These kids sold a video-sharing website for $1.65 billion in 2006. Then vanished overnight. Today, that site is worth over $455 BILLION dollars. Here's why they walked away from the most valuable website in history: Meet Chad, Steve, and Jawed: t

How a Valentine’s Day Flop Became a $183 Billion Empire On February 14, 2005, YouTube’s domain was registered—not as a video-sharing giant, but as a dating website with the slogan: “Tune in, hook up.” The idea? People would upload videos to find l

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"Industry Titan to cautionary tale” Billions to bankruptcy #9 Videocon was founded by Venugopal Dhoot in 1986 as a company focused on manufacturing and assembling television.Soon they became well known for affordable and reliable consumer electroni

Youtube's Great Pivot YouTube, the video-sharing platform that has become an integral part of our daily lives, had a rather unconventional origin story. Initially, the founders envisioned it as a dating site where users could create videos introduci

How Donald Valentine Started Sequoia Capital >Donald was Born in 1932, in USA >He Graduated from Fordham University >Started his career in sales & marketing at Raytheon (military weapon manufacturer) >Joined Fairchild Semiconductor as a sales exec

From Odeo to X— The Wild Journey of Twitter! In 2005, podcasting was booming. A startup called Odeo, co-founded by Evan Williams, was betting big on it. But then Apple announced podcasts on iTunes. Game over. The Odeo team needed a pivot. Jack Dors

The Rise and Fall of Vevo: How Music's Corporate Giants Tried to Conquer the Internet In the late 2000s, the music industry was bleeding. Napster and LimeWire had decimated traditional revenue streams, and record labels watched helplessly as illegal