by Ekrem Duman | Feb 9, 2026 | Startup
In 1939, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard founded Hewlett-Packard in a Palo Alto garage with $538 and built the first product of Silicon Valley. In 2008, Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia funded Airbnb by selling novelty cereal boxes because no investor believed strangers...
by Ekrem Duman | Feb 9, 2026 | Startup
In 2010, Patrick Collison and his younger brother John were frustrated. The brothers, Irish immigrants who had both dropped out of college to pursue entrepreneurial projects, were trying to build web applications and kept running into the same problem: accepting...
by Ekrem Duman | Feb 9, 2026 | Startup
On September 26, 2016, Zhang Yiming’s company ByteDance launched Douyin, a short-form video app for the Chinese market. The app allowed users to create 15-second videos set to music, effects, and filters, similar to Musical.ly (which ByteDance would acquire the...
by Ekrem Duman | Feb 8, 2026 | Startup
On June 28, 2015, a Falcon 9 rocket carrying supplies to the International Space Station exploded 139 seconds after liftoff. The failure was SpaceX’s third in seven years and threatened NASA contracts worth billions. Elon Musk stood in the Mission Control center...
by Ekrem Duman | Feb 8, 2026 | Startup
On a snowy Paris evening in December 2008, Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp couldn’t find a taxi. The two entrepreneurs, in town for a conference, stood frustrated on a street corner waiting for cabs that never came. Camp, who had recently sold his startup...
by Ekrem Duman | Feb 8, 2026 | Startup
In July 1994, Jeff Bezos was a senior vice president at D.E. Shaw, a quantitative hedge fund in New York, pulling down an enviable Wall Street salary. He had read a statistic that would change his life and reshape global commerce: the internet was growing at 2,300%...
