For many founders of start-ups, getting a high valuation is only half of the goal. One of the extraordinary motivations that motivates many entrepreneurs to build a startup is to change the way they see and interact with the world.
While every startup can teach people something, the most disruptive ones often teach people the most profound lessons.
In a villa in San Francisco''s Silicon Valley, Arthur looks at the workplace of Kevin strom and Krieg, where their dreams began.
Arthur is really filled with emotion. You know, without his presence, INS relies entirely on the fanatical fan community to spread it around the world without a marketing budget. Then, it will sell itself to Facebook for nearly $1 billion.
Unfortunately, they met themselves!
“。。。 When I first came up with the idea of starting a business, I wanted to build a website based on location and combining photo sharing with social Jiao, similar to that of Fu sikuai and game company Zynga. I also named this idea burbn.
The idea intrigued Steve Anderson, a baseline venture partner, who provided strom with a $250000 start-up, but asked me to find a co-founder... "
with a bitter smile, Kevin recalls the situation when he just started his business a year ago, and tells Arthur that Arthur can understand the other party''s mood when he looks at the expression on Kevin''s face.
"At the beginning, I used to prepare for burbn in a cafe not far away. There, he met Mike, my younger brother. I spent a month persuading him to leave Meebo, a chat software company. In the end, I succeeded. Krieg joined us, and our team was completed.
On the first day of Mike''s joining, I said that the team wanted to change direction, because the previous model could not be expanded, and the competitor Fu sikuai had gained too much first mover advantage.
I want to reposition the product as a mobile app that focuses on photo sharing, codename. We spent weeks refactoring the prototype, I was in charge of the back-end code, and Mike was focused on the IOS front-end. This app has the function of taking pictures and can also be applied to social Jiao. However, we are still not satisfied with the development effect.
To get rid of my depression, I went to an artist''s manor in Mexico to have a rest and look for inspiration. There, my girlfriend asked me how to take beautiful photos on my mobile phone. I answered two words, filter.
All of a sudden, I recalled my photography lessons when I went to Florence for an exchange at Stanford, and the experience of taking artistic pictures with cheap film cameras. So for the rest of my vacation, I designed the first filter, the x-proii
With that, Kevin sat down in front of the computer and began to show and explain them one by one. Even Arthur, a technical idiot, can see that the ins foundation developed by the other side is more perfect and detailed than his photo wall app.
"Well? This is Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook? " Arthur saw a picture of a group of several people, a man whose face was familiar, and asked.
"Yes, we are all members of the Stamford sigma nun fraternity, and he wanted me to join Facebook to help develop photo services, and he offered options worth tens of millions of dollars today.
However, I chose to continue my studies. To be honest, it was not easy to refuse this kind of Youhu. You know, at that time, the valuation of Facebook had reached 500 million dollars
Kevin shakes his head and laughs.
Arthur nodded with a smile, and there was a flash of brilliance in his eyes, while Krieg said with a smile: "really, the popular twitter now has Kevin''s ideas in it?"
"Oh?" Arthur was once again interested and asked curiously, "tell me, what''s going on?"
"Ha ha, I can''t say it''s my creativity..." Kevin shook his head and laughed. Seeing Arthur''s interest, Kevin only jokingly explained, "while I was at Stanford, I joined the Mayfield researchers program at Stanford University.
This is a project with Mayfield venture capital, which allows project members to gain experience in the venture capital industry. In this project, I learned the knowledge and experience of financing and trading, which is why I choose to start a business.
And in this project, I also met Jack Dorsey, the founder of twitter, and we worked together to develop applications. Among these applications, there is the prototype of twitter. However, the birth of INS was also influenced by Jack
"I see!" After hearing this, Arthur said, nodding his head.
Hearing these sources, Arthur was relieved. What is the so-called Silicon Valley myth of starting from scratch!
You know, if Arthur didn''t appear, when INS was developed, Kevin would use his extensive contacts in Silicon Valley to promote it. These Silicon Valley bulls have become the seed users of INS, and have posted pictures of using INS filters on the social Jiao website. These users include the founder of twitter, which currently has 175 million users.So soon, the fame of INS spread in the technology circle. In fact, this is also an alternative celebrity effect.
This also makes sense. Why did Facebook''s pockmarked children complete the acquisition of INS? After all, they were friends, and they belonged to a brotherhood. Naturally, everything was easy to discuss!
Therefore, if you listen to the legendary stories of "starting from scratch", you don''t know that there are many little-known secrets after the so-called "self-made".
However, it has to be said that after the founders of many enterprises are successful, they will claim that they started from scratch. How hard it is to start a business, how hard it is to start a business, how many days have they not slept and have eaten steamed bread for several weeks... But for those who are familiar with the founders, the so-called starting from scratch is deceptive.
Obviously, what he meow is the second generation of entrepreneurship, and he also has to make a self-made news. This is totally fooling the public, fooling those young people who do not know that starting a business is very simple. All the successful entrepreneurs are self-made.
In fact, these people have accumulated years of experience, and then what kind of person is the old father-in-law. My father-in-law has invested millions to start a business on his own. Think about how such a person can''t do it if he has money and experience.
But there are too many people who don''t know the inside story. They are so inspired by the so-called inspirational stories. They have to start from scratch just like taking stimulants. The results can be imagined.
The so-called "starting from scratch" of the rich is just to give you a thought and give you hope. Do not start a business with enthusiasm. For ordinary people, it is very easy for them to get up once they fall down. Therefore, we must be careful.
Therefore, always believe that there is no pie in the sky!
It must be admitted that the starting point of everyone''s struggle is different. The starting point of some people''s struggle is the ceiling of others'' struggle. Different birth determines the degree of hardship and the height of struggle you can reach.
"Ha ha, everyone who knows me knows that I am not a miser. If you know my power plant goes public, dozens of millionaires will be produced, and all the employees of the plant will get listing dividends. In the future, I will take part of the equity to establish an equity incentive scheme.
You two are great talents. I will never waste it. I have already called London, and some people will come to the studio there soon.
What''s more, you may not know that the person in charge of the photo wall studio is concurrently held by the CEO of my game company. That is to say, the photo wall studio currently lacks CEO and CTO. If you can, I hope you two can help me to support the photo wall studio! "
since he is a real talent, Arthur naturally will not let go, is it money and decentralization?
As long as you can give him hard work, money, reward and decentralization, that''s nothing!
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