YouTube | Acquired Podcast
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YouTube | Acquired Podcast
just stumbled on sequoia's 2005 investment memo for youtube
when I was on google's M&A team, we considered it the best acquisition in the history of the company
It's 41 pages of juicy details on why they invested (thanks for the lawsuit, Viacom)
I obviously had... See more
Early Google founders at Stanford, web’s explosive 1990s growth, and why such exponential trends justify life‑changing bets.
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So fall of 1995, Larry arrives at Stanford. Sergey's already there. Terry Winograd is his PhD advisor. And Larry and Sergey are already building this great friendship Larry that academic year presents a dissertation topic to Terry to his advisor in collaboration with Sergei And the idea they have is this World Wide Web thing seems to be
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Today, Facebook is seen as the prime example for the power of network effects – and yet, one wonders where Facebook would be had it not acquired Instagram back in 2012. People also seem to forget about all the other social apps which Facebook has bought and subsequently shut down over the years. Why would a company that has supposedly “won the... See more