In 1999, Compaq paid $307 million for Elon Musk's Zip2. Three years later, Compaq itself was acquired by HP and ceased to exist. How the ...
In 2005, three former PayPal employees couldn't find footage of the Janet Jackson Super Bowl incident online. So they built YouTube. Goog...
After PayPal sold to eBay for $1.5 billion, Reid Hoffman spent six months building LinkedIn in his living room. The site launched with 4,...
Before PayPal moved billions online, it was a PalmPilot app for splitting lunch bills. Peter Thiel and Max Levchin's original idea had on...
In 1994, Jeff Bezos left a lucrative Wall Street job, drove cross-country with his wife, and started Amazon on door desks in a Bellevue g...
After selling Zip2 for $22 million, Elon Musk bought a $1 million McLaren F1. Then he totaled it on Sand Hill Road with Peter Thiel in th...
In 2000, Netflix offered to sell itself to Blockbuster for $50 million. CEO John Antioco laughed. Two decades later, Netflix is worth $20...
Before Reed Hastings became the face of Netflix, Marc Randolph was the company's first CEO. He pitched the idea on a carpool commute, bui...
