Entrepreneurs

When two people began working on an advertisement-based free service that allowed users to listen to all of the music in the world in 2005, it changed the music industry forever.

Pinterest is a photo sharing website that is in the top 50 most popular sites in the world. However, the visual discovery tool began as just a dream.

From a hobby in 2004 to over 1.8 billion monthly active users, here’s the story of Facebook.

While he was at Harvard, Mark Zuckerberg built websites as a hobby. He built Facemash, which allowed his classmates to rate students as attractive or not. He also helped friends with another site called HarvardConnection. His friends eventually sued Zuckerberg, claiming he stole their idea for the creation of Facebook.

Did you know YouTube was created by three former PayPal employees and was originally a dating site?

YouTube was created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. The logo, website domain and trademark for YouTube were registered on 14th February 2005, with the original idea for it to be an online dating website. Users would be able to upload videos of them introducing themselves and saying what they were interested in, but the idea didn’t take off and the co-founders soon pivoted to become a more general video sharing site.

P.T. Barnum was an incredibly successful promoter and showman. He created and ran a travelling circus that was known as “The Greatest Show On Earth”. He was aware of the public’s obsession for the whacky, weird and outrageous and he exploited this by exaggerating and even making up his acts. These included a woman allegedly 161 years old and a real live mermaid (which was actually a monkey wearing a fish tail).