Recently, the world has turned upside down, high technology in the form of constantly changing gadgets accompany our every day. What modern person will imagine his life without social networks, favorite applications and news feed updates in the morning? Social networks have firmly entered our lives, but have you ever thought that this is the painstaking work of people. So, what are the startups who turned this world upside down.
Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy (Snapchat)
Snapchat is an application that is designed to share photos and videos. The "trick" is that these materials disappear within a day. Evan and Bobby were not even thirty, and each account already had 2.7 billion dollars. Murphy is married to his classmate Kelsey Bateman, they met at Stanford. Spiegel in 2017 “ringed” Miranda Kerr - one of the highest paid models in the world. An interesting fact is that Miranda is 7 years older than her husband.
Ian Kum and Brian Acton (WhatsApp)
Ian Kum and Brian Acton devoted 10 years of their life to work at Yahoo! and in 2007 decided to move on. Initially, they tried the article as part of the Facebook team, but were refused. Friends decided to take a break from the hustle and went on a trip to South America. The trip turned out to be very productive, and in 2009 WhatsApp Inc. appeared In 2014, Ian and Brian sold their brainchild to Facebook for $ 22 billion.
Talmon Marko and Igor Magazin (Viber)
Future partners met while serving in the Israeli army. After that, the first startup - iMesh file hosting came out from under their wing. Viber appeared only in 2010, and after 4 years they sold the application for 900 million US dollars.
Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Javed Karim (YouTube)
If you believe the rumors, the idea of the appearance of video hosting came to the mind of Chad Hurley when he could not share the video with his friend. The fame for YouTube came at the expense of ease of use. Already in 2006, the project was sold for $ 1.6 billion.
Justin Kahn (Twitch)
In 2007, Kang and his partners showed the world the justin.tv platform. Its essence was that each person could publish their own video materials in the relevant sections. By 2011, it became clear that the most popular category was tournaments and games. So there was a separate resource twitch.tv. In 2014, the platform was bought by Amazon for $ 940 million.
Pavel Durov (VK, Telegram)
Back in 2006, two brothers from St. Petersburg, Pavel (in the main photo) and Nikolai, introduced the site vkontakte.ru to the world. A year later, the resource became the third most popular social network in the CIS countries. By 2010, more than 100 million people registered on the site. In 2014, Pavel sold his share of mail.ru and plunged headlong into work on the creation of the Telegram messenger. Durov's fortune is 2.7 billion US dollars.
Garrett Camp and Travis Kalanick (Uber)
The idea to create a taxi service came to two businessmen when they were waiting for a car for a long time after a business meeting. The path to success was difficult: competition, authorities from different countries, problems with the license. Uber now operates in more than 76 countries.
Chris Barton (Shazam)
The history of this application begins earlier than all of the above. Back in 1999, before the birth of iTunes, iPhone and the App Store, a program appeared that could identify music. The application worked in that it was necessary to call a four-digit number, hold the phone next to the sound source for at least 30 seconds and wait for a message with the result. Technology does not stand still, and the complex program was adapted for smartphones.In 2017, Apple bought the application from the founder for $ 400 million.
Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone (Twitter)
Initially, the application developed by Dorsey was intended for communication in large companies. His colleagues found the idea interesting, and in 2007, Twitter was formed. Already in 2008, the number of published tweets reached 300 million per day. Today, Twitter takes 11th place in the ranking of the most popular resources in the world.
Mike Krieger and Kevin Systrom (Instagram)
The history of the resource began in 2010, when two Stanford graduates, Mike and Kevin, launched the application. Its essence was to plan a trip, register there and publish photos. The main function of the application was absolutely useless, but people liked to publish photos.
Thus, on October 5, 2010 Instagram was born. Already in December, the number of users exceeded one million. Two years later, Facebook bought the application for $ 1 billion, which was an absolute record.