YouTube
How YouTube Started
Did you know YouTube was created by three former PayPal employees and was originally a dating site? YouTube was created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and...
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13 articles from the Eudaimonia collection.
How Facebook Started
From a hobby in 2004 to over 1.8 billion monthly active users, here’s the story of Facebook. While he was at Harvard, Mark Zuckerberg built websites as a...
How Pinterest Started
Pinterest is a photo sharing website that is in the top 50 most popular sites in the world. However, the visual discovery tool began as just a dream. Ben...
spotify
How Spotify Started
When two people began working on an advertisement-based free service that allowed users to listen to all of the music in the world in 2005, it changed the...
snapchat
How Snapchat Started
Snapchat is an image messaging and multimedia app originally created by three students from Stanford university. After a very slow start, it’s now hit...
dropbox
How Dropbox Started
Dropbox is an internet hosting service, allowing users to store their files in the cloud. They gathered a million users just seven months after their...
Airbnb
How Airbnb Started
Airbnb is the tale of how three men went from renting mattresses to a $30 billion company. In 2007, two housemates who were both designers, Brian Chesky...
Netflix
How Netflix Started
The Californian entertainment company Netflix began life by offering people the opportunity to rent a movie from home and receive it on DVD in the mail....
Uber
How Uber Started
Uber is worldwide transportation company. It allows its users to press a button on their app and a taxi cab will turn up for them. Travis Kalanick and...
Bo Peabody
Lucky Or Smart? by Bo Peabody
Bo Peabody is an entrepreneur. The first company he built, Tripod was the 8th largest website in the world before it was sold to Lycos for $58 million in...
Phil Knight
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
Phil Knight was a 24-year-old man who had just returned home to Oregon after graduating with a master’s from Stanford and serving in the US Army for a...
Jack Ma
Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built
Jack Ma is an English teacher turned Internet entrepreneur who founded the Chinese e-commerce company called Alibaba. It is the Amazon of the East, but it...
Innocent Drinks
How the Innocent Drinks Company began
So I recently listened to a podcast where Richard Reed was interviewed. Richard founded the Innocent Drinks Company, which went from a fledgling start-up...