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How LinkedIn got its first users?
BrainiacUnicorn Warrior How LinkedIn got its first users? LinkedIn started in late 2002 by Reid Hoffman, but the site was officially launched in 2003. He had been working at PayPal, and before that, he had Socialnet (online dating with interest-based search for people).Socialnet was a failure. LinkedIn was created because Hoffman thought about a place …
How Snapchat got its first users?
BrainiacUnicorn Warrior How Snapchat got its first users? Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy had a vision to revolutionize the manner in which people communicated. They introduced an innovative app called Picaboo that promised sending disappearing messages – a concept that was novel at the time. Despite their efforts to generate buzz through outreach to journalists …
How Twitter got its first users?
Unicorn WarriorBrainiac How Twitter got its first users? Twitter started as twttr. It was a text messages broadcasting app by people from Odeo.Odeo was Noah Glass’ podcast platform. When Apple launched iTunes, Odeo began to fall rapidly – nobody needed a podcasts-only app. Glass and his team started organizing hackatons to save the business. One …
How Telegram got its first users?
Unicorn WarriorBrainiac How Telegram got its first users? Telegram is the creation of Pavel and Nikolai Durovs. The brothers’ previous project was VKontakte, a Russian counterpart of Facebook.Telegram is the answer to WhatsApp. It started with Pavel Durov’s desire. Its code-name was Telegra.ph. He wanted to communicate with his brother in a way that would …
How Discord got its first users?
Unicorn WarriorBrainiac How Discord got its first users? Jason Citron and Stan Vishnevskiy loved video games. Citron had been making games, but they weren’t popular enough. Together with Vishnevskiy, they wanted to build something for better and smoother social connections between players. One good thing about Citron’s games was their chatting systems. The guys decided …
How YouTube got its first users?
Unicorn WarriorBrainiac How YouTube got its first users? Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, the Youtube founders, had all been former PayPal employees.YouTube started as a platform for sharing videos for dating purposes. They wanted to share a video, but they couldn’t find an appropriate place for it on the Internet. A dating YouTube …
