The 10 most successful star-us of our time
Amazon
It is a US company of electronic commerce and cloud computing services at all levels based in the US city of Seattle, Washington State. The company was founded in 1994, driven by what Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
Kevin Systrom graduated from Stanford and created an application that allows you to share photos and notes, called Burbn.
After that I met Mike Krieger one of the first users of Burbn and now co-founder of Instagram. Over time the Burbn changed to Instagram
Uber
Travis Kalanick and Garret Camp were complaining about how difficult it is to get a cab, because of this they created an application that allows you to order a car anywhere you are to reach a destination.
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It is an American company that offers online social media and social media services based in Menlo Park, California. His website was launched on February 4, 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, along with other Harvard University students and roommates.
Received its first investment from PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel.
Ant Financial
is an offshoot of Jack Ma’s Alibaba Group, and the world’s first and only hectocorn . The reason for its success is its dominance in the Chinese market – Alipay, the company’s online payment platform, holds 54% of the mobile market.
Snapchat
Evan Spiegel, Reggie Brown and Bobby Murphy created an application in which people sent photos and for a while were deleted, this application was called Picaboo. After a fight the name of the application changed to Snapchat.
Apple
It is an American company that designs and produces electronic equipment, software and online services. Apple, the company that Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne founded in 1976, which created the personal computer, the iPod, the iPhone and much more
Jan Koum and Brian Acton are colleagues who worked for Yahoo. They were very frustrated because the pages had many ads. Because of this they created an application in 2009 called WhatsApp that allows you to communicate with different people without any interruption.
Didi Chuxing
Hot on the heels of Uber is China’s own ride-sharing company, whose regional dominance forced Uber to abandon its operations there.
Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra and Evan Sharp, in 2009 they will start working on a site where people can show collections of things that interest them call Pinterest.