They were the fastest company EVER to hit a billion-dollar valuation.
Their revenue grew 22,000% in one year.
Then they refused Google's $6B acquisition offer.
Now, no one knows if they'll survive.
The crazy story of Groupon's meteoric rise — and
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Jagan raj
Stealth • 1m
Amazon burned billions before it became a trillion dollar company
Same like Groupon
Groupon game didn't end yet
because it was started by Jews
There are only seven trillion dollar in company in world.
1 Microsoft $2.965trillion
2 Apple $2.623trillion
3 Saudi Aramco $1.942trillion
4 Alphabet $1.950trillion
5 Amazon
Shares in the AI juggernaut rose 2.9 percent to $139.93, swelling its market capitalization to $3.43 trillion, ahead of Apple at $3.38 trillion.
Nvidia previously became the largest traded company in June, although it only held the record for a day.
Ever feel like we're overcomplicating the startup game? So many of us are going all-in on AI/ML, making business more complex than it needs to be. Meanwhile, in the U.S., startups with straightforward solutions to simple problems are making millions—
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Kolkata Index
Stealth • 1m
Failed Startups of Today’s Billionaires: Lessons in Resilience
Ever heard of Zip2 or Odeo? Probably not. Yet, these "failed" ventures laid the groundwork for Elon Musk's Tesla and Twitter or Jack Dorsey's Twitter resurgence. Did you know Jeff Bezos’
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Vrishank Raj
Stealth • 5m
Amazon India's "Chai Cart" Strategy 👇
I am sure most of you don't know about this strategy that Amazon India employed to win over small offline sellers. Even I didn't know this, I was learning about Amazon's success in India when I got to know abou
How the US Military Lost $2.3 Trillion!
So Firstly, The US military didn’t loose $2.3 trillion, they just lost track of where it was spent.
Understand that with an easy example.
So Imagine that you earned and spent 10 lakhs in a year, but only doc
Insight Discovery!
— Amazon
In the early 2000s, Amazon's data team noticed a trend: customers frequently purchased certain items together, even if they didn't search for them initially.
Amazon realized that understanding these purchase patterns cou
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Vishu Bheda
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Medial • 3m
These 3 guys became billionaires by copying other companies.
They created clones of eBay, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter…
And somehow they got away with it (and made billions).
Here’s the crazy story of the Samwer Brothers:
In the late 1990s, the Sam
Deepinder is a billionaire now.
But, 1 billion is not a big deal.
The way he managed to run Zomato all these years is what truly counts.
Imagine for survival diluting your company so much that you end up with only a 5% stake, yet still manage to e
"The origins of Slack- A multi-billion dollar pivot" (Saturday Startup Nugget Story -4):
In 2009, Stewart Butterfield and his team were working on a gaming startup called Tiny Speck. As they built an online game called Glitch, they faced communicati
