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Travis Kalanick started Uber as a hack to split a few private cars with his friends. Thefacebook.com was just a student directory written in PHP. Even Elon Musk started SpaceX with the goal of merely increasing NASA’s budget by pulling a PR stunt.
Daniel Gross • How To Decide What To Build
In 2013, Alex was a futurist for education in SAP. Tried to do some research on how the education industry was going to transform with new technology. This prompted Alex to start a company in the education space. Alex and his co-founder came up with a "billion dollar" startup idea to transform education by combining Coursera + Twitter into a new pr... See more
Josh Elman • Musical.ly's Alex Zhu on Igniting Viral Growth and Building a User Community | #ProductSF
Early delivery and ride-sharing apps hooked into Google Maps.
Chris Dixon • Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
I’m famous for having invested $25,000 in Uber when it was worth around $5 million—it’s now worth $70 billion in the private markets. When I invested, Uber was operating in one city and they only had a couple of Lincoln Town Cars signed up. It wasn’t clear if the business could scale or make money, but I knew the founder was exceptionally driven an
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