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๐—™๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ธ ๐˜ƒ๐˜€ ๐—ฆ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜: ๐—›๐—ผ๐˜„ ๐—ญ๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ด ๐—–๐—ฟ๐˜‚๐˜€๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ฎ $๐Ÿฏ๐—• ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—ท๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐˜„๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต ๐—–๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐˜†-๐—ฃ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ ๐—ช๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ณ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ‘. Snapchat is exploding. Young people love it. Quick, raw, and fun โ€” it feels like the future. ๐Œ๐š๐ซ๐ค ๐™๐ฎ๐œ๐ค๐ž๐ซ๐›๐ž๐ซ๐  ๐ง๐จ๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐ž๐ฌ. He offers $๐Ÿ‘ ๐›๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ๐ง to buy Snapchat. But Evan Spiegel โ€” just 23 years old โ€” says ๐ง๐จ. He wants to build something bigger. Zuck doesnโ€™t get angry. He gets ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ข๐œ. And what comes next? One of the most savage moves in startup history. ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—–๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐˜†-๐—ฃ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ ๐—ช๐—ฎ๐—ฟ ๐—•๐—ฒ๐—ด๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜€ Zuckerberg doesnโ€™t just build new features. He ๐œ๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐ž๐ฌ ๐’๐ง๐š๐ฉ๐œ๐ก๐š๐ญ. ๐๐ข๐ž๐œ๐ž ๐›๐ฒ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ž๐œ๐ž. Snapchat Stories? โ†’ ๐ˆ๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ ๐ซ๐š๐ฆ ๐’๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ (2016) AR Filters and Lenses? โ†’ Added to ๐ˆ๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ ๐ซ๐š๐ฆ & ๐…๐š๐œ๐ž๐›๐จ๐จ๐ค Disappearing messages? โ†’ ๐–๐ก๐š๐ญ๐ฌ๐€๐ฉ๐ฉ & ๐Œ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐ ๐ž๐ซ get them too Spiegel watched as ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐  ๐’๐ง๐š๐ฉ๐œ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ข๐ง๐ฏ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ ... ...got ๐œ๐จ๐ฉ๐ข๐ž๐ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐œ๐š๐ฅ๐ž๐ to Facebookโ€™s ๐Ÿ‘-๐›๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ๐ง+ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ. ๐—ฆ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—ฆ๐˜๐—ฟ๐˜‚๐—ด๐—ด๐—น๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—–๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ฒ Snapโ€™s user growth slows. Instagram Stories blows past it. Advertisers shift budgets. Teens move to Instagram. Snapchat is still loved, but Facebook is ๐ญ๐จ๐จ ๐›๐ข๐  ๐ญ๐จ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ง. Even Snapโ€™s 2017 IPO is underwhelming. Meanwhile, Instagram becomes ๐™๐ฎ๐œ๐ค๐ž๐ซ๐›๐ž๐ซ๐ โ€™๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ซ๐จ๐œ๐ค๐ž๐ญ. ๐Ÿฏ ๐—ง๐—ฎ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐˜„๐—ฎ๐˜†๐˜€ ๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—บ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—™๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ธ-๐—ฆ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—ช๐—ฎ๐—ฟ 1. ๐๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐›๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง. A good product is powerful. But a good product with billions of users? ๐ƒ๐ž๐š๐๐ฅ๐ฒ. 2. ๐ˆ๐ง ๐ญ๐ž๐œ๐ก, ๐œ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฒ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ข๐ฌ๐งโ€™๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ก๐š๐ฆ๐ž๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ฅ โ€” ๐ข๐ญโ€™๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ฒ. Facebook didnโ€™t invent Stories. But it scaled them better than Snapchat ever could. 3. ๐“๐ฎ๐ซ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐๐จ๐ฐ๐ง ๐š ๐›๐ข๐  ๐จ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ซ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐›๐จ๐ฅ๐ โ€” ๐š๐ง๐ ๐๐š๐ง๐ ๐ž๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ. Spiegel kept his company. But he faced a decade-long war with a tech giant. ๐™๐ฎ๐œ๐ค๐ž๐ซ๐›๐ž๐ซ๐  ๐๐ข๐๐งโ€™๐ญ ๐›๐ž๐š๐ญ ๐’๐ง๐š๐ฉ๐œ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ข๐ง๐ง๐จ๐ฏ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง. ๐‡๐ž ๐›๐ž๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ฌ๐œ๐š๐ฅ๐ž, ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐ž๐, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ž๐ฑ๐ž๐œ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง. This wasnโ€™t just business. ๐ˆ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐š๐ซ. I hope you've enjoyed this. Follow Vishu Bheda for more such amazing business stories!

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