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How (Medium) got its first customers?
Unicorn WarriorBrainiac How Medium got its first customers? When Evan Williams was founding Medium, there was no place where people could write longer posts. Previously, Evan had co-founded Twitter.He noticed the demand for longer writing as Twitter limited the length of posts to 140 characters. Medium was supposed to be something between Pinterest and Twitter.…
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How (Netflix) got its first customers?
Unicorn WarriorBrainiac How Netflix got its first customers? It was called Kibble during its beta. It was sending DVDs with movies to people who ordered them online. The packages contained the movies ordered together with a sleeve for sending the DVDs back. The company paid all the shipping costs.Before Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph set…
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How (Uber) got its first users?
Unicorn WarriorBrainiac How Uber got its first users? UberCab was founded in 2009. Garrett Camp and Travis Kalanick had only three cars at that moment. The idea was born on a winter evening when the two couldn’t get a cab. They thought that taking a ride with a simple screen tap would be a great…
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How (Zappos) got its first customers?
Unicorn WarriorBrainiac How Zappos got its first customers? Zappos started as an online shoe store. Nick Swinmurn thought he would try selling shoes online. He set up a website called Shoesite.com and started visiting local shoe stores.He went to Footwear Etc. in one of California’s malls, and offered them he could buy their shoes and…
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How (Loom) got its first users?
Unicorn WarriorBrainiac How Loom got its first users? Loom’s MVP was called Openvid, but before that, the founder pivoted twice.First, there was Opentest. It was a video tool that allowed companies and startups to ask experts for feedback on their products. They could connect online and show them what they were working on.It wasn’t popular.…
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How (Twitch) got its first users?
Unicorn WarriorBrainiac How Twitch got its first users? When Twitch started in 2005 as Justin.tv, it was more focused on real-life content rather than games.Justin.tv was a small platform with user accounts called “channels.” Users could stream by using the “Broadcast” function. The content was divided into many categories. Streaming on Justin.tv was possible on…
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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…
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How (WordPress) got its first users?
Unicorn WarriorBrainiac How WordPress got its first users? WordPress started as a tool for creating blogs. It was built on the code of B2/cafelog, a popular, yet simple blogging tool. B2/cafelog went down without any explanation from its creator.Matt and Michel’s posts about WordPress on b2/cafelog website.One of the B2/cafelog’s users, Matt Mullenweg, decided to…
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How (Zoom) got its first users?
Unicorn WarriorBrainiac How Zoom got its first users? Zoom was founded by Eric Yuan, a former WebEx worker at Cisco, which was a platform for video conferences.Customers of the company were unhappy with the service quality. Yuan left Cisco together with about 40 other employees and had a plan for his own startup.He raised around…
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How (Stripe) got its first users?
Unicorn WarriorBrainiac How Stripe got its first users? Stripe was born to make payment easier for developers. Other payment services, such as PayPal, didn’t focus that much on developers.Patrick Collison knew Paul Graham from Y Combinator. Collison’s previous project, Auctomatic (an online auction management system), was built thanks to YC.Before Paul and his brother, John,…
