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🎥 From Dating App to Empire: The YouTube Story In February 2005, three former PayPal employees launched a site called YouTube. Their original idea? 💘 A video dating site. The slogan: “Tune in, Hook up.” It flopped. No one uploaded dating videos.

Day 3 - Startup Surprise How a Side Project Accidentally Became a Billion-Dollar Business: The Untold Story of Slack Did you know Slack, the workplace communication giant, was never meant to be a company? It began as a side project, an internal tool

𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗯𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵. It fails because it can’t tell a good story. Over 𝟑𝟎𝟎+ 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐬 have flopped — not because they were useless, but because no one understood them or car

A "Pivot" is just a nice word for "We were wrong." And that's your superpower. 🚀 The startup world loves to romanticise the "pivot." It sounds like a chess grandmaster's calculated, genius move. The reality? It's usually a moment of sheer panic

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