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Mark Zuckerbergsriramk.comEric Yuan, founder of the video communications company Zoom, started the company at age forty-one; by then, he was a senior vice president at Cisco, leading a thousand-person team.
Ali Tamaseb • Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups
Facebook end up acquiring Instagram for $1 Billion in 2012.
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Attention Factory: The Story of TikTok and China's ByteDance
Matthew Brennan, Valentina Segovia,
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How did an app designed by two guys in Shanghai managed to run circles around U.S. video apps from YouTube to Facebook to Instagram to Snapchat, becoming the most fertile source for meme origination, mutation, and dissemination in a culture so different from the one in which it was built?
Eugene Wei • TikTok and the Sorting Hat — Remains of the Day
Wang Xing embodied a philosophy of conquest tracing back to the fourteenth-century emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, the leader of a rebel army who outlasted dozens of competing warlords to found the Ming Dynasty: “Build high walls, store up grain, and bide your time before claiming the throne.” For Wang Xing, venture funding was his grain, a superior product
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Yubo is also unique because it has decided to monetize its user-base at an early stage and did not build a model dependent on advertising.
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Jinri Toutiao (meaning “today’s headlines”; English name: “ByteDance”).